Soil Its Nature Relations Hilgard

Agriculture Science
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES SOILS SOILS THEIR FORMATION, PROPERTIES, COMPOSITION, AND RELATIONS TO CLIMATE AND PLANT GROWTH IN THE HUMID AND ARID REGIONS BY E. W. HILGARD, PH.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, AND DIRECTOR OF THE CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1906. Reprinted August, 1907; January, 1910; April, 19ll; September, 1912; September, 1914; January, 1918. Notfoooto Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS. ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF SOILS. Introduction. Chapter I. Physical Processes of Soil Formation. II. Chemical Processes of Soil Formation. III. Chief Soil-forming Minerals. IV. The Various Rocks as Soil-Formers. V. Minor Mineral Ingredients of Soils. Mineral Fertilizers. Minerals Injurious to Agriculture. 2. PHYSICS OF SOILS. Chapter VI. Physical Composition of Soils. " VII. Density, Pore Space, and Volume-Weight of Soils. " VIII. Soil and Subsoil; Causes and Processes of Differentiation; Humus. " IX. Soil and Subsoil; Organisms Influencing Soil-Conditions. Bacteria. " X. Soil and Subsoil in their Relations to Vegetation. " XI. Water of Soils; Hygroscopic and Capillary Moisture. XII. Water of Soils; Surface, Hydrostatic, and Gr…
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