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The soil solution

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The soil solution

Frank Kenneth Cameron

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Beneath every field lies a thin film of water carrying dissolved salts, and in that solution a crop finds its food or starves. Frank Cameron examines soil as a living chemical system: how it is managed, analyzed, and fed, and why the old plant-food theory of fertilizers needed rethinking. A foundational look at the ground under our feet.

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16 chapters

  1. 1THE SOIL SOLUTION
  2. 2Preface.
  3. 3Chapter I. THE SOIL.
  4. 4Chapter II. SOIL MANAGEMENT OR CONTROL.
  5. 5Chapter III. SOIL ANALYSIS AND THE HISTORICAL METHODS OF SOIL INVESTIGATION.
  6. 6Chapter IV. THE PLANT-FOOD THEORY OF FERTILIZERS.
  7. 7Chapter V. THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF SOIL PHENOMENA.
  8. 8Chapter VI. THE FILM WATER.
  9. 9Chapter VII. THE MINERAL CONSTITUENTS OF THE SOIL SOLUTION.⁠[40]
  10. 10Chapter VIII. ABSORPTION BY SOILS.
  11. 11Chapter IX. THE RELATION OF PLANT GROWTH TO CONCENTRATION.
  12. 12Chapter X. THE BALANCE BETWEEN SUPPLY AND REMOVAL OF MINERAL PLANT NUTRIENTS.
  13. 13Chapter XI. THE ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS OF THE SOIL SOLUTION.
  14. 14Chapter XII. FERTILIZERS.
  15. 15Chapter XIII.ALKALI.
  16. 16INDEX.
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