Find the right balance of organic matter, tillage, and chemical additives to increase the quality and quantity of crops!
This book shows the importance of organic matter in maintaining crop production. The addition of organic matter to soil is covered in great detail. This book is unique in that it draws on practical farming operations to illustrate many of the points discussed. The senior author has had almost 60 years of experience in solving production problems--many of which have been related to insufficient organic matter.
In addition, Sustainable Soils: The Place of Organic Matter in Sustaining Soils and Their Productivity stresses the necessity of combining the addition of organic matter with reduced tillage and added chemicals. Photographs, tables, and figures, as well as appendixes containing common and botanical names of plants, symbols and abbreviations found in the text, and useful conversion factors and data help bring the information into focus quickly and efficiently. An extensive bibliography points the way to other useful material on this subject.
Sustainable Soils discusses: what materials can be added techniques for proper handling of organic matter how much is enough (and how much is too much!) the nutritive value of various forms of organic matter the benefits that can be expected from properly handling and adding organic matter to soil From the Editors: "Sustainable agriculture is not possible without a sustainable soil science, which in turn is largely dependent on organic matter. It is necessary to return large amounts of organic matter to the soil in order to maintain satisfactory crop production. It can be derived from crop residues, cover crops, sods, or various wastes, such as manures, sludges, and composts. This book details the benefits of various forms, and how each should be handled for maximum returns."

For Colt Fallon, a fat reward to return the kidnapped girl instead of a risky ransom, plus taking a few million in diamonds from a safe-deposit box might work despite being crossed by his ex-girlfriend, Nikki, and if he didn't get killed by the kidnapper Waco Martin seeking revenge, or the tall, beautiful black sniper for The Principles, Yolanda Smart. In chases that lead from Lake Tahoe to the Northwest to the Bahamas in everything from a battered van to a Chinese junk, Colt Fallon is stripped of everything as he meets with double-cross, treachery, killings, and bullet wounds, while he tries to stay alive long enough for a payday, some love with his new nurse Denise, and a long sail into the sunset...

Sailing on a Mexican treasure hunt for buried gold with his two-girl lesbian crew, Bay finds drugs, is attacked by the cartel, and loses all he owns as he's dumped in the desert and left to die. Rescued by Carlos and his daughter, Consuela, who is lusted after by the hissing evil, Pierre Dante, Bay gets involved in a cartel war. He dodges Baja bullets in an attempt to rescue the girl and get his revenge. "Raw and believable, this first person narrative suggests that Snyder's character Baylor Rumble could perhaps take on the mantle of the late great John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee." - Robert Morton, author of "Death is Another Life."

In this first Bay Rumble crime thriller, Bay is hired by a mobster widow to find a missing diary belonging to the long-legged beauty blown away right in front of him. Delving into the woman's history, he learns she was a bad girl, and not the only bad girl he encounters. He gets involved with a faithless wife who has a killer husband; meets good cops, bad cops, mob hit men, an ex-stud, ex-con gone to seed, a sparkly bar maid somebody wants dead, and other serious killers.

Murder and mayhem, kept boys and cocktails, rehab and redemption in the City of Fallen Angels. First in the Sam, Pam and Didier series of adventure tales, "On Wings of Affection" addresses the question of what you do when, having committed yourself to being of love and service, you want to kill someone.