One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered. E-book. Formato PDF Edward J. Wickson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This brochure is not a systematic treatise in catechetical form intended to cover what the writer holds to be most important to know about California agricultural practices. It is simply a classified arrangement of a thousand or more questions which have been actually asked, and to which answers have been undertaken through the columns of the pacific rural press, a weekly journal of agricul ture published in San Francisco. Whatever value is claimed for the work is based upon the assumption that information, which about seven hundred people have actually asked for, would be also interest ing and helpful to thousands of other people. If you do not find in this compilation what you desire to know, submit your question to the pacific rural press, San Francisco, in the columns of which answers to agricultural questions are weekly set forth at the rate of five hundred or more each year. This publication is therefore intended to answer a thousand questions for you and to encourage you to ask a thousand more.

The California Vegetables in Garden and Field: A Manual of Practice, With and Without Irrigation, for Semitropical Countries. E-book. Formato PDF Edward J. Wickson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In addition to broad differences between California and other areas oc cupied by English-speaking peoples in the Northern Hemisphere, conditions of soil and climate are very diverse within the boundaries of this common wealth and gardening practice must vary with them. N o matter how skilful and successful a man may be in his particular locality, his experience can only be a safe guide to those who happen to work under Similar conditions. There fore a suggestive treatise must analyze the local conditions and practice and translate them into terms of wide applicability. To do this it is necessary that the principles underlying the successful practice should be discerned and the significance of conditions be interpreted. That this character has been in some degree attained in this work is attested by its acceptance as a guide in all parts of California and by the sphere of popularity and usefulness it has entered in distant countries, which have resemblance to California in climatic conditions and desire to establish similar industries upon them. The writer has had opportunity for wide collection of data, and for ex tended personal observation as well, and his effort has been continually in Spirited by enthusiastic delight in the subject itself, gained from his own garden work.