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Wege zur Natur

Eine Einführung in micrologiche studien für anfänger From a generous donation by Thorsten Perl and friends of the digitalized collection of works by and about Dr. Raoul H. Francé and his wife Annie Francé-Harrar.

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Mikrokosmos

Zeitschrift für angewandte Mikroskopie, Mikrobiologie, Mikrochemie und mikroskopische Technik From a generous donation by Thorsten Perl and friends of the digitalized collection of works by and about Dr. Raoul H. Francé and his wife Annie Francé-Harrar.

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Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas

This fully illustrated publication details what we presently know about life the soil and the complex ecosystem within which life is sustained. Of course, and here is the rub, when the soil is described as being a very complex living ecosystem, the information flies in the face of Industrial Agriculture. Modern farmers, with the help of their agents, have all but declared war on soil life by the use of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides.
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Let’s Live! 1952

They include: Soil Treatment and Wool Output; Diseases As Deficiencies Via the Soil; How Smart is a Cow? Quality vs. Quantity Crops; "Deep Rooting" Depends on Soil; Soil Fertility and Nutritive Food Values; Soil and Proteins; Our Teeth and Our Soils; Mineral Hunger; Soil Acidity is Beneficial; Too Much Nitrogen? Protein Deficiencies. . . through Soil Deficiencies.
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Let’s Live! 1953

They include: Soil and Nutrition; The Role of Nitrogen; More and Better Proteins; Proteins and Reproduction; Protein Protection; Better Proteins; Soil Fertility for Proteins; Soil Conservation; The Importance of Soil; High Time to Learn About Our Soils and Our Health; The Use of Mulches; Protein Service in Nutrition.
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Let’s Live! 1954

They include: Amino Acids in Legumes According to Soil Fertility; The Soil Fertility Pattern (February 1954, MISSING); The Little Things Count in Nutrition; Animals Know Good Food!; Agriculture is Biology First and Foremost; The Upset Biological Processes; Consider the Soil--Not Technologies!; Some Soils Analyzed; The Role of Clay in Plant Nutrition; Root Chemistry and Clay Chemistry; The Sustaining Fertility of the Soil; The Importance of Soil Economics.
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Let’s Live! 1957

They include: Rhododendrons . . . a Problem of Soil Fertility, Not Acidity; Is Soil Fertility via Food Quality Reported in Your Varied Pulse Rate?; Breeding Out Plant Proteins--Bringing in Diseases; Cycles of Soil Changes In White Clover Years; Cycles of Soil Changes in White Clover Years; Fertilizing with Nitrogen: The Cow Makes Her Suggestions; Fertilizing with Nitrogen: Rabbits Testify by Experiments; Fertilizing with Nitrogen: We May Use Too Much Salt; Fertilizing with Nitrogen: Fertility Imbalance and Insect Damage; Too Much Salt for the Soil; Blood Will Tell; What Texture of Soil is Preferred?
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Let’s Live! 1960

They include: Different Soils, Different Plant Compositions (Bacteria Help Legume Roots Mobilize Fertility); Different Soils, Different Plant Compositions (Microbes Give Legumes Their Protein Power); Different Soils, Different Plant Compositions (Fertility Effects Show Early in Plants); Different Soils. . . (Big Yields of Bulk-Low Phosphorus Concentration); Different Soils. . . (Boron Interrelated with Potassium); Different Soils. . . (Boron Helps Maintain Potassium Balance); Different Soils. . . (Soil Exhaustion--Variable Organic and Inorganic Composition of Plants); Different Soils. . . (Sulfur Deficiency in Soils); Different Soils. . . (Chemical Composition of Plants and the "Feeding Power" of Their Roots); Different Soils. . . (Chemical Composition of Plants and the "Feeding Power" of Their Roots) part 2; Different Soils. . . (Vegetable Quality Reveals its Connection with Soil Organic Matter); Different Soils.. . ("Chelation")--Nature's Emphasis on Soil Organic Matter.
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Let’s Live! 1961

They include: Different Soils, Different Plant Compositions (Natural Laws Regarding Soils and Plant Compositions); Different Soils . . . (Depleted Soils--Species Extinction); Different Soils . . . (Soil Organic Matter Mobilizes the Phosphorus for Plants); Different Soils . . . (Soil Organic Matter Mobilizes the Phosphorus for Plants); Different Soils . . . (Depleted Soils Change Sugar, Starch, Proteins and Yields of Crop); Mobilizing the Natural Soil Potassium; Nitrates . . . Possible Poison Grown into Foods; To Keep the Soil a "Living" One; Soil's Resurrection in Three Years; Schedule of Soil Fertility Delivery and Crop Growth; Schedule of Soil Fertility Delivery and Crop Growth; An Old Problem--Loss of Applied Nitrogen.
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Let’s Live! 1964

They include: "Mychorrhiza," II. Misconceptions Persist; "Mycorrhiza," III.Facts About Their Magnitude; "Mycorrhiza," III. Facts About Their Magnitude; "Mycorrhiza," IV. Revelations of Species; "Mycorrhiza," V. Parasite or Symbiont According to Soil as Nutrition; "Mycorrhiza," V. Parasite or Symbiont According to Soil as Nutrition; "Mycorrhiza," VI. Some Field Observations; "Mycorrhiza," VI. Some Field Observations; "Mycorrhiza," VII. Proteins, Amino Acids and Benzene Rings; "Mycorrhiza," VII. Proteins, Amino Acids and Benzene Rings; "Mycorrhiza," VIII. Early Beliefs Lately Confirmed; Magnesium . . . Balance in Soil, Plants and Bodies.
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Soil Microorganisms and Higher Plants

Krasil'nikov found ways to improve plant growth and crop yields with special composts and microbial ferments of the sort that could be produced by the farmer in an old barrel. All these "primitive" solutions are based on a very high-level understanding of soil microbes and how crop species interact with each other via long-lasting soil residues (root exudates), and how plants and microbes interact with each other.
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Soil and Sense

Graham wrote before the discoveries of micorhizzal associations and production of phytamins by soil bacteria. But he still did a very good job of explaining the essences of sustainable holistic farming to the general public.
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Trees and Toadstools

A foundation work of the Organic Farming and Gardening movement. It discusses the relationships between tree roots and fungi. Rayner's work formed the basis of the organicist contention that supporting a complete and healthy population of soil microlife is essential to plant health.
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