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Farm practices that increase crop yields : the Gulf Coast region

28 pages : 23 cm · "Gulf Coast region upland soils are ordinarily deficient in nitrogen and need to be supplied with liberal quantities of organic matter if profitable crop yields are to be produced. This condition is most easily and cheaply remedied by growing such legumes as velvet beans, cur clover, crimson clover, hairy vetch and beggar weed, and by carefully utilizing all farm manures, crop residues, and other sources of humus. By a simple readjustment most of the cropping systems followed in this region may be made to include one or more legumes which ill in crease the supply of nitrogen and humus in the soil and greatly increase crop yields. Systems by means of which crop yields are being increased in the region are discussed in the following pages."--Page [2] · Cover title · Economic conditions -- Practices in increasing corn yields -- Crops for soil improvement -- Commercial fertilizers -- Cropping systems -- Inter-cropping -- Winter cover crops -- Crop rotations

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