ood Farming.--
Summer-fallowing and Plowing under Clover.-- We must raise
larger Crops per Acre.-- Destruction of Weeds.-- Farming is
Slow Work.-- It requires Personal Attention. 9

CHAPTER II.

What is Manure?-- The definitions given by the Deacon and the
Doctor. 19

CHAPTER III.

Something about Plant-food.-- All soils on which plants grow
contain it.-- The Season.-- Water, Shade, Light, and Mulch,
not Manures.-- Several Definitions of Manure. 21

CHAPTER IV.

Natural Manure.-- Accumulated Plant-food in the Soil.-- Exhaustion
of the Soil.-- Why our Crops are so Poor.-- How to get Larger
Crops.-- We must Drain, Cultivate thoroughly, and Make Richer
Manure. 23

CHAPTER V.

Swamp-muck and Peat as Manure.-- Draining Swamp-land.--
Composition of Peat and Muck. 29

CHAPTER VI.

What is Potential Ammonia. 31

CHAPTER VII.

Tillage is Manure.-- The Doctor's Lecture on Manure. 32

CHAPTER VIII.

Summer-fallowing.-- Mr. Lawes' crop every other year.-- Wheat
after Barley.-- For Larger Crops raise less frequently, and
Manure Higher; also keep better Stock, and Feed Higher. 34

CHAPTER IX.

How to Restore a Worn-out Farm.-- The Author's Farm.-- Tillage
renders the Plant-food stored in the soil available.--
Cultivated Lands contain less Plant-food, but are more
productive.-- Grass alone will not make rich land. 37

CHAPTER X.

How to Make Manure.-- We must get it out of the Land. 41

CHAPTER XI.

The Value of the Manure depends upon the Food--not upon the
Animal. 43

CHAPTER XII.

Foods which Make Rich Manure.-- Table giving the composition of
31 kinds of Food and the value of the Manure they yield.--
Cotton-seed Cake.-- English and German Clover.-- Nitrogenous
matter in Rich and Poor Foods.-- Manure from Corn compared
with that from Straw. 45

CHAPTER XIII.

Horse-manure and Farm-yard Manure.-- Why the one is richer than
the other.-- Amount of Manure from a Horse.-- Composition of
Farm-yard Manure.-- We draw and spread a ton to get 33 lbs. of
Ni