The Furrow And Us

Released here in a sixtieth anniversary edition and updated and introduced by Walter Thomas Jack's great-grandson Zachary, this new edition of The Furrow and Us serves as a clarion call to steward the natural and familial heritage of the soil.

Zachary M. Jack is an assistant professor of English at North Central College.

Editor's Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xi

Part One: Sentiment

The Quaker's Nature: A Preface

3

(4)

The Force of Circumstance

7

(4)

In the Beginning

11

(4)

A Science Is Born

15

(4)

Why We Plow

19

(6)

Natural Economies

25

(6)

Man and Naturalist

31

(2)

Hidden Hungers

33

(8)

The Old Quaker Was Right

41

(6)

Part Two: Soil

Soil and Tilth: A Primer

47

(26)

Soil Productivity

50

(2)

Lime and the Art of Liming

52

(2)

Limiting Factors

54

(3)

Roots

57

(3)

Soil Nutrition

60

(3)

Base-Exchange Simplified

63

(2)

Fertility

65

(2)

The Value of Rotation

67

(6)

Part Three: Soil and Sentiment

Soil and Sentiment

73

(4)

Appendix

77

(2)

Notes

79

(4)

About the Editor

83

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