[Ebook] An Agricultural Testament

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An Agricultural Testament
Sinopsis :
Facsimile of 1940 Edition. An Agricultural Testament is Sir
Albert Howard's best-known publication and remains one of
the seminal works in the history of organic farming movement.
The work focuses on the nature and management of soil
fertility, and notably explores composting. At a time when
modern, chemical-based industrialized agriculture was just
beginning to radically alter food production, it advocated
natural processes rather than man-made inputs as the
superior approach to farming. It was first published in England
in 1940. Since this book first appeared in 1940, it has been
regarded as one of the most important contributions to the
solution of soil rehabilitation problems ever published. More

importantly, it is regarded as the keystone of the organic
movement.Louis Bromfield called it the best book I know on
soil and the processes which take part in it. Soil Science called
it the most interesting and suggestive book on soil fertility
which has appeared since King's Farmers of Forty Centuries.
And Mother Earth News recently called it the most basic of all
introductions to organic farming by the founder of the modern
movement.The object of the book was to draw attention to the
loss of soil fertility, brought about by the vast increase in crop
and animal production, that has led to such disastrous
consequences as a general unbalancing of farming practices,
an increase in plant and animal diseases and the loss of soil
by erosion. Howard contended that such losses can be
repaired only by maintaining soil fertility by manufacturing
humus from vegetable and animal wastes through the
composting process. He stressed, too, a little-known nutritional
factor, the mycorrhizal association, which is the living fungous
bridge between humus in the soil and the sap of plants.