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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
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  • Subject: Agriculture bibliography part 6
  • Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:16:58 -0500



Poultry books:

Successful Poultry Management
Morley A. Jull
1943, McGraw-Hill Book Co.
467 pps.

Poultry Management
Heuser, Hall, Bruckner, Gregory
1952, J.B. Lippincott Co.
565 pps.

The Rural Science Series
Edited by L.H. Bailey
MacMillan, publisher
-
Practical Poultry-Farming
Louis M. Hurd
first published 1928, my copy is 1942, MacMillan
454 pps.
.
Farm Poultry
by Watson
.
The Feeding of Animals
by Jordan
.
The Diseases of Animals
by Mayo
-

Lippincott's Farm Manuals
Edited by Kary C. Davis, PhD (Cornell)
-
Productive Poultry Husbandry
A Complete Text
Dealing With the Principles and Practices
Involved in the Management of Poultry
By Harry R. Lewis, B.S.
329 Illustrations in the Text
2nd edition, 1914 536 pps.
J.B. Lippincott, publisher

Poultry Production
by William Adams Lippincott
Professor of Poultry Husbandry,
Kansas State Agricultural College
3rd Rev. Ed. 1921
541 pps. with 243 engravings
Lea & Feibiger, publisher
Philadelphia and New York
[my copy was once on the shelves of
Pocono Mountain Jr.-Sr. High School Library
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania
Pocono Township Consolidated and High School
Book No. 5]



Books

Renewable Natural Resources

The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, 1985.
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollison.
Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by Russell J. Smith, 1929.
The Permaculture Garden by Graham Bell, 1994.
Holistic Resource Management by Alan Savory.



Social Studies

_Living the Good Life and _Continuing the Good Life_ by Helen and
Scott Nearing.
Dumbing Us Down by John Gatto.
Communities Directory by the Fellowship for Intentional
Community, 1995.
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh by Helena Norberg-Hodge,
1991.
Invest Yourself Commission on Voluntary Service and Action, New
York, New York, 1993. "The catalogue of Volunteer
Opportunities."



Building

Thermal Delight in Architecture by Lisa Heschong, 1979.
The Straw Bale House by Steen, Steen, and Bainbridge, 1994.



Food Preparation

Stocking Up III: The All-New Edition of America's Classic
Preserving Guide by Carol Hupping, 1986.
Ferment and Human Nutrition by Bill Mollison, Published by Tagari
Press, 1993.



Catalogues

Peaceful Valley Farm Supply P.O. Box 2209, Grass Valley, CA
95945. Phone: 916-272-4769.
Real Goods 966 Mazzoni Street; Ukiah, CA 95482-3471. Phone:
800-762-7325; Fax 707-468-9486.
Island Press Environmental Sourcebook "Books for better
conservation management." P.O. Box 7; Covelo, CA 95428.
Phone: 800-828-1302; Fax 707-983-6414.



Periodicals

The Permaculture Activist P.O. Box 1209; Black Mountain, NC
28711. Contact, Peter Bane.
The Permaculture International Journal P.O. Box 6039; South
Lismore; NSW 2480, Australia. Phone: 066-220-020; Fax:
066-220-579; pcjournal AT peg.apc.org (electronic mail).
Permaculture Drylands Jounal P.O. Box 64184; Tucson, AZ 85728.
Communities


Louis Bromfield's books
Wes Jackson, "Altars of Unhewn Stone"
Bill Duesing, edited by Suzanne Duesing, "Living on the Earth"
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"Plowman's Folly," and "A Second Look," both by Edward H. Faulkner
"Shattering" by Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney, 1990
An excellent, readable, and comprehensive exploration of the
issues surrounding the loss of genetic diversity.
"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn 1992
"An Acres U.S.A. Primer" Charles Walters, Jr. and C.J. Fenzau
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Jane Gussow, "Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce & Agriculture."
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"So Shall You Reap: Farming and Crops in Human Affairs"
by Otto T. and Dorothy Solbrig
1994 Shearwater Books / Island Press
Presents a general account on the co-evolution of agriculture,
agricultural crops and human societies. A nice mix of general
historical overview, vignettes, and information about crop plants.
I used it in an undergraduate course and the students loved it.
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"Science in Agriculture," Arden Anderson

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Brady,N.C. and R. R. Weil. 1996. THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF SOILS,
11TH
ED. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J. 740p.

This is an ecologically-oriented revision of the book that has the
standard treatise on soils since the 1920s. The most authoritative
book on
all aspects of sustainable soil management. With lots of
illustrations,
references and diagrams, the book is still very readable for the
average
person with a good high school education in basic science. Includes
extensive information on soil organic matter managment, soil life and
ecology,
organic and inorganic fertilizer materials, compsting, soil quality,
soil
profiles, soil conservation, water management, tilth, and the like.

Magdoff, Fred. 1992. BUILDING BETTER SOILS FOR BETTER CROPS.
University of
Nebraska Press. 176 p

This is a small, but practical book that explains the basics of
managing
soil organic matter to improve soil quality. This very readable book
focuses
on soil management as particularily relevant for grain and livestock
farmers.
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David B. Danbom. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
A general history of agriculture and rural life in the United
States
from Colonial times through the present. By necessity, there's not
a
lot of detail, but it covers a lot of ground. Would make a decent
basic
text for a course in U.S. ag history.

Willard W. Cochrane. The Development of American Agriculture: A
Historical Analysis. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993.
A classic. Primarily an economic orientation, but plenty of
coverage of
social concerns, too. Lots of detail, particularly on role of
technology in ag development.

James R. Shortridge. The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture.
Univ. Press of Kansas, 1989.
A nice little book, especially for Midwesterners. Basic premise is
that
the Middle West is what and where you think it is, and that what
we
think it is is complicated by its being both breadbasket and
industrial
heartland.

William Cronon. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
Norton, 1991.
A social/economic history of the development of Chicago. Main
premise:
the city depended on its hinterland as much as the other way
around.
Interesting stuff.

John Fraser Hart. The Land That Feeds Us: The Story of American
Farming.Norton, 1991.
Definitely not academic. Accounts of farming from regions around
the
country. Highlights cultural and practical differences. Some
interesting history, too.

National Research Council. Alternative Agriculture. National Academy
Press, 1989.
Analysis of alternatives to conventional ag production in the
1990s.
Not basic, but not that hard to read, either.

Gary Comstock (ed.). Is There a Moral Obligation to Save the
Family Farm? Iowa State University Press, 1987.
A series of essays on the title topic by economists, sociologists,
philosophers, farmers, and others. Lists of suggested readings,
too. A
must for those interested in the "family farm" question.

Marty Strange. Family Farming: A New Economic Vision. Univ of Nebraska
Press, 1988.
Read this one along with the previous two.

>From Land to Mouth: Understanding the Food System
Brewster Kneen. NC Press.
An excellent overview of the *logic* behind the modern food system,
namely
distancing, uniformity, and continuous flow. This book is the basis
for
most of my studies.

New Roots for Agriculture
Wendell Berry. Sierra Club
Essays on the history of the development of agribusiness and the
plight
of farmers.

The Intimate Commodity
Anthony Winson. Garamond Press
Similar to above, only Canadian history.

A Garden of Unearthly Delights
Robin Mather. Dutton
A very accessible account of the *pros* and cons of biotechnology.
Really
well written and entertaining -- more ethnographic than agricultural,
but
quite relevant.

The New Organic Grower
Eliot Coleman
Don't just read about it, do it! Agricultural tehcniques for
sustainable
production.
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A classic collection is Joan Gussow's The Feeding Web (1978).

Also, Brewster Kneen's From Land to Mouth- Understanding the Food
System (1993)
and Planting the Future- Developing an Agriculture that Sustains
Land and Community edited by Bird, Bultena, and Gardner.
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Mothers & Others has written a practical consumer guide called "The
Way We
Grow: Good-Sense Solutions to Protecting Our Families From Pesticides
In
Food" (Berkley Books, 1993, $8.95, 90 pages). It covers current
methods of
food production, sustainable agriculture as a new food system, actions
to
take to protect families, farmers and the environment (how to get
organic
and local food into supermarkets, restaurants, etc.), and includes a
foreword by T. Berry Brazelton, MD.
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All of the Wendell Berry books:
"The Unsettling of America"
something like, "Sex, Community and ..."
"The Gift of Good Land"

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We review such books regularly in the Book Stall department of
Farmer's
Market Online (marketfarm AT aol.com). Here's a few we've reviewed and
found of
value recently.

A Garden Of Unearthly Delights:
Bioengineering and the Future of Food
by Robin Mather
Dutton, 1995, $23.95 cloth.

As an advocate of sustainable agriculture, Mather approaches the
issue of
bioengineered food products with a skeptical and often critical
eye.

REFORMING AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY POLICY, by Brian D. Wright an Bruce
L.
Gardner. 164 pp. AEI Press, 1995. $29.95 cloth.

As Congress pushes its "Freedom to Farm" act toward the President's
desk,
this volume provides some timely reading. Published by the American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, it contains the
results of
two studies on U.S. agricultural poicies that provide insight into
the
politics of and options for the 1995 Farm Bill.

THE ORCHARD ALMANAC: A Seasonal Guide to Healthy Fruit Trees, by Steve
Page
and Joe Smillie. 176 pp. AgAccess, 1995. $16.95 paper plus $4 shipping
from
agAccess, P.O. Box 2008, Davis, CA 95617; fax (916)756-7188.

Growing sweet, unblemished and bug-free fruit is never easy; doing
it with
little or no chemical inputs is downright difficult. As any
backyard
orchardist is well aware, organic growers deserve whatever premiums
they seek.

FOOD AND WINE ONLINE:
A Guide to Culinary Online Services
by Gary Holleman.
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.

In a vocation as tangible and personal as cooking, it may be
surprising to
discover how many professional chefs not only own computers, but
are actively
cruising the Internet and various bulletin board systems. This book
is
written for chefs and other food service people who are already
online, or
who plan to go that direction soon; it is their cyberspace
guidebook, no
matter how experienced.

SO SHALL YOU REAP:Farming and Crops in Human Affairs
Otto T. Solbrig and Dorothy J. Solbrig
Island Press, ISBN 1-55963-308-5

"Only in the last 200 years have agriculturists come to dominate
the planet,"
note Harvard biologist Otto Solbrig and biology librarian Dorothy
Solbrig. In
their co-authored history of farming, So Shall You Reap, they
detail the
gradual emergence of agriculture and how it changed human history
and the
world's environment.

THE CONTRARY FARMER
Gene Logsdon
Chelsea Green Publishing Co.,
$21.95 cloth, ISBN 0-930031-67-9

Much of Logsdon's writing, particularly in The Contrary Farmer, is
meant to
inspire people to buy a small plot of land, till its soil, grow a
crop
or two, and to invest themselves in the local community. He offers
practical
advice on mulching, raising hogs, building ponds, cutting firewood
and other skills of rural life, but most importantly he provides a
philosophical framework for a fulfilling life outside of mainstream
consumerism.

AT NATURE'S PACE:Farming and the American Dream
Gene Logsdon
Pantheon Books, $23 cloth,
ISBN 0-0679-42741-4

The collection of essays in At Nature's Pace argue against
single-crop
megafarms, which are moving toward an economic and biological
crisis, in
favor of frugal and sustainable cottage farms. Logsdon envisions a
return to
the kind of farming practiced before farmers became obsessed with
expanding
their acreages, increasing their profits and living more like city
folk.

The 2 volume set of "Albrecht Papers". (From ACRES USA at 1 800 355
5313).
He was one of the world experts on soil and plant/animal nutrition,
from the U of MO.
He did major and vital work about a generation ago; still highly
valid.

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These are more philosophical than practical. I am not sure that they
are still in print.

Hyams, Edward
Soil and Civilization
Harper Colophon Books, 1976. rev. ed

Carter, Vernon Gill & Tom Dale
Topsoil and Civilization
University of Oklahoma Press, 1974
Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm
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