A Farm-management Survey of Three Representative Areas in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa


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This detailed study of farm management practices in three key Midwestern states offers valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of agricultural life. Drawing on a range of data sources and his own firsthand observations, Edward Herrmann Thomson provides a nuanced picture of the economic, social, and environmental factors that shape the decisions of farm managers. With its practical focus and engaging prose style, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of farming in the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.







Bulletin


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Farm Management


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Farmers' Bulletin


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"Corn is made mostly of soil moisture and warm air. The acre yield of the United States has been below 31 bushels every year, while moisture and warm air sufficient to bring the yield to 100 bushels have gone to waste. By reducing the waste of moisture and heat corn yields can be doubled. Moisture runs off and carries with it the most fertile parts of the soil. Heat goes to waste in drying the soil and subsoil while timely cultivation would save both heat and moisture. Cultivation sometimes is beneficial, sometime injurious. Page 18. Recent discovery of the fact that seed corn that matures well and dries out promptly will keep its good germinating and yielding powers for four or five years makes unnecessary planting of poor seed corn or the loss of acclimated and improved strains. Page 23. This bulletin is especially applicable to dry-land regions; but corn yields are so dependent upon the relative quantities of soil moisture and heat that the principles given here apply wherever corn is raised." -- p. [2]




The Management of the Farm


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Agricultural Outlook


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