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    Nursery Management - With Information on Lay Out, Soils, Shelters and Other Aspects of the Plant Nursery
    Nursery Management - With Information on Lay Out, Soils, Shelters and Other Aspects of the Plant Nursery
    Nursery Management - With Information on Lay Out, Soils, Shelters and Other Aspects of the Plant Nursery
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    Nursery Management - With Information on Lay Out, Soils, Shelters and Other Aspects of the Plant Nursery

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    This antique book contains a thorough guide to setting up and maintaining a plant nursery, including information on lay out, soils, shelters, seasonal alterations, tips on stocking, general economy, and many other aspects conducive to success. Written in clear language and including simple, step-by-step instructions, this profusely illustrated guide constitutes a must-have for anyone with an interest in the topic, and makes for a worthy addition to collections of agricultural and horticultural literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Historical and Statistical Information', 'Nursery Soils and their Care', 'Effects of Nursery Crops on Soil', 'Cover Crops for Nursery Lands', 'Winter Protection of Nurseries', 'Storing Nursery Stock in Frost-Proof Winter Quarters', 'Nursery Tree Trimming', etcetera. We are proud to republish this vintage book, now complete with a new introduction on farming.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeutsch Press
    Release dateDec 28, 2016
    ISBN9781473347380
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      Nursery Management - With Information on Lay Out, Soils, Shelters and Other Aspects of the Plant Nursery - Deutsch Press

      Nursery

      Management

      With Information on Lay Out, Soils,

      Shelters and Other Aspects of the

      Plant Nursery

      By

      M. G. Kains

      L. M. Mcquesten

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Contents

      Farming

      NURSERY MANAGEMENT

      Farming

      Agriculture, also called farming or husbandry, is the cultivation of animals, plants, or fungi for fibre, biofuel, drugs and other products used to sustain and enhance human life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. It is hence, of extraordinary importance for the development of society, as we know it today. The word agriculture is a late Middle English adaptation of Latin agricultūra, from ager, ‘field’, and cultūra, ‘cultivation’ or ‘growing’. The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by vastly different climates, cultures, and technologies. However all farming generally relies on techniques to expand and maintain the lands that are suitable for raising domesticated species. For plants, this usually requires some form of irrigation, although there are methods of dryland farming. Livestock are raised in a combination of grassland-based and landless systems, in an industry that covers almost one-third of the world’s ice- and water-free area.

      Agricultural practices such as irrigation, crop rotation, fertilizers, pesticides and the domestication of livestock were developed long ago, but have made great progress in the past century. The history of agriculture has played a major role in human history, as agricultural progress has been a crucial factor in worldwide socioeconomic change. Division of labour in agricultural societies made (now) commonplace specializations, rarely seen in hunter-gatherer cultures, which allowed the growth of towns and cities, and the complex societies we call civilizations. When farmers became capable of producing food beyond the needs of their own families, others in their society were freed to devote themselves to projects other than food acquisition. Historians and anthropologists have long argued that the development of agriculture made civilization possible.

      In the developed world, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture has become the dominant system of modern farming, although there is growing support for sustainable agriculture, including permaculture and organic agriculture. Until the Industrial

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