https://archive.org/details/gardenyardhandbo00hall
https://archive.org/stream/gardenyardhandbo00hall#page/126/mode/2up
Bolton Hall
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Hall%2C+Bolton%2C+1854-1938%22
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
THE CLIFTON PARK SYSTEM OF FARMING and laying down land to grass
http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010128elliot/010128toc.html
And in the cases previously alluded to, I am satisfied that a still better result would have been obtained had I, when first laying down the land in question, been acquainted with the deep-rooting chicory, burnet, and kidney vetch, and the advantage of using, from a vegetable-matter-creating point of view, a large amount of cocksfoot and yarrow.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010128elliot/010128ch3.html
Improved Inner Kaimrig Mixture. Cocksfoot, 10; Meadow Fescue, 5; Tall Fescue, 4; Tall Oat-like Grass, 3; Hard Fescue, 1; Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, 1; Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass, 1; Golden Oat Grass, 1/2; Italian Ryegrass, 3; White Clover, 2; Alsike Clover, 1; Late-flowering Red Clover, 2; Kidney Vetch, 2-1/2; Chicory, 3; Burnet, 8; Sheep's Parsley, 1; Yarrow, 1/2. Total, 48 lb. per acre.
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During the summer of 1898 we had a severe drought, which showed conspicuously the advantage of using drought-resisting plants. I this year observed, what had before escaped my notice, the great drought-resisting power of the late-flowering red clover, which is particularly to be recommended for light soils, and I am now inclined to place it, as a drough-tresisting plant, on a level with chicory, burnet, and kidney vetch.
And in the cases previously alluded to, I am satisfied that a still better result would have been obtained had I, when first laying down the land in question, been acquainted with the deep-rooting chicory, burnet, and kidney vetch, and the advantage of using, from a vegetable-matter-creating point of view, a large amount of cocksfoot and yarrow.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010128elliot/010128ch3.html
Improved Inner Kaimrig Mixture. Cocksfoot, 10; Meadow Fescue, 5; Tall Fescue, 4; Tall Oat-like Grass, 3; Hard Fescue, 1; Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, 1; Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass, 1; Golden Oat Grass, 1/2; Italian Ryegrass, 3; White Clover, 2; Alsike Clover, 1; Late-flowering Red Clover, 2; Kidney Vetch, 2-1/2; Chicory, 3; Burnet, 8; Sheep's Parsley, 1; Yarrow, 1/2. Total, 48 lb. per acre.
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During the summer of 1898 we had a severe drought, which showed conspicuously the advantage of using drought-resisting plants. I this year observed, what had before escaped my notice, the great drought-resisting power of the late-flowering red clover, which is particularly to be recommended for light soils, and I am now inclined to place it, as a drough-tresisting plant, on a level with chicory, burnet, and kidney vetch.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Wendell Berry’s Thoughts On ‘Our Only World’
The destruction of locally based household economies and the conversion of large numbers of small independent producers into entirely dependent consumers, for whom everything needed must be purchased (not cultivated), severs the link between people and the land.
http://planetsave.com/2015/03/07/wendell-berrys-thoughts-on-our-only-world/
http://planetsave.com/2015/03/07/wendell-berrys-thoughts-on-our-only-world/
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1602399840/ref=nosim/cryptogoncom-20
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Fighting Crop Insurance Cronyism
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/olmstead/fighting-crop-insurance-cronyism/
Friday, March 6, 2015
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