INDEX

acidity, soil, 12-13, 277

Acres U.S.A., xii, xvii, xx

Albrecht method, xvii

Albrecht Papers, The, x-xi, xxii, xx, xxii

Albrecht, William A., ix-xiv

alfalfa, 25, 37, 66, 136

amino acids, 88, 240

ammonium, 36

animal disease, 162

animal instincts, 161, 203, 269, 275

animal production, 69-86

animal wisdom, 46

animals, balancing diets, 80

animals, domestic, 34

animals, wild, 3

antibiotics, 242

antlers, 201

Aureomycin, xii

bacteria, 22, 50

balance of nature, 103

barley, 28

beef production, 78, 114

biological agriculture, 109-111

biosynthesis, 210

biotic pyramid, 51

birth rate, 239

births, 12

bison, 199

body organs, 63, 166

bovine paunch, 53

breed variance, 83

calcareous soil, 91

calcium phosphate, 217

calcium, 12, 36, 58, 65, 81, 145, 205, 217, 254, 268

carbohydrate production, 111

carbohydrate synthesis, 89-91

carbohydrates, 40

carbohydrates, excess, 249, 251, 255

carbon, 56

cattle, fattening, 240

cavities, 190-191, 263

chemical composition, or plants, 185

chemical composition, plants, 153

clay, 13, 72, 149, 151

climatic forces, 73

climatic geography, 157

climatic pattern, 35, 78

climax crops, 50

clover, 30

clover, red, 25

Coastal Plains, 180

corn, 129, 137

corn, hybrid, 111

corn, open-pollinated, 146

cotton, 235

cow, 231

crop juggling, 213

crop yields, 22

crops, analysis of, 232

crude protein, 279

Darwin, Charles, 33

deficiencies, 5

deficiencies, nutritional, xv

dental defects, 262

dental records, xv

diet, animals balancing, 80

disease, 54

dust, 193

ecological arrays, 103

economics, 76

elements, 57

Europe, 200

evaporation, 75

exchange, 149

exhaustion, fertility, 112-114

fattening, 70

feed values, 102

fertility, declining, 273

fescue hay, 62

fescue, 111

food composition, 186

food protein, 259-261

food, nutritive value, 177-180

fungi, soil, 52

fungus attack, 72

geography, climatic, 154

grains, stored, 146

grass, 21, 69, 135, 276

grass, nutritious, 29

grazing, 44

grazing, discrimination, 45

grazing, heavy, 30

green manure, 127, 132

hay, 38, 46, 99-100, 206

Hereford herd, 31

hog production, 79

hogs,82, 127, 131, 134-140

human health, 223

human nutrition, 197-200

humans, healthy, 143

humus, 13, 151-152

hybrid corn, 111

Ikerd, John, xxiii

imbalances in the soil, 43

immunity, 3

inorganic fertility, 40

insects, 55, 243

interactions in the soil, 43

interdependence, 50

lamb crop, 244

legume, 50

licking, 11

lime, 15, 117, 139-140, 169, 187

lime, deficiency, 10

limestone, 16

liver, 65

livestock, 49, 87

magnesium, 36, 59, 280

mastitis, 105

medical rejectees, 221-222

microbes, 52, 55

mineral content, 170

minerals, 129

minerals, soil, 267

N, P & K, xxiv

Nichols, Joe D., v

nitrogen, 21, 52, 56, 61, 81, 118, 187, 205, 254, 279

nourishment, 198-199, 272

nutrient shortages, 9

nutrition, human, 197-200

nutritional density, xix

nutritional values of foods, 19

obesity, xvi, xix

organic, 40

organic matter, 26

pasture, 25, 108

paunch, 65

phosphate, 15-16, 169

phosphorus, 60, 117-118, 268

photosynthesis, 210

plant ecology, 160

plant growth, virgin, 211

Poirot, E.M., 99

porcupine, 201

pork production, 137

potassium, 36, 42-43, 60, 145

protein, 4-5, 40, 61, 71, 81, 88, 170, 177-180, 236, 239, 273-274, 281

protein, crop, 156

protein, crude, 279

proteins, complete, 108, 188

protein production, 92

protein shortages, 239

protein synthesis, 89-91

Putnam silt loam, 66

rabbit, 23, 164

rainfall, 74-75, 155, 171, 184

reproduction, 87

rickets, 175

rocks, 35

rumen, 57

Sanborn Field, xii, xxvi

sheep, 84, 121

skeletons, failing, 215-216

sodium, 36, 42

soil, 87

soil conservation, 96

soil construction, 181, 211-212

soil destruction, 182-183, 211-212

soil development, 153

soil exhaustion, 255-256

soil fertility pattern, 159

soil fertility, 82-83

soil fertility, declining, 124, 160

soil fertility, lowered, 27

Soil Fertility & Animal Health, xxv

soil minerals, 138, 267

soil mining, 94-95

soil, chemical tests of, 232

sulfur, 60, 118, 280

sweet tooth, 214

teeth, 84, 190, 209, 247-249

thyroid damage, in sheep, 123

timothy, 56

total exchange capacity, 36

trace elements, 122

University of Illinois, ix

University of Missouri, ix, xiii

vegetation, high-cellulose, 57

vegetation, virgin, 77

vitamin B12, 39, 64, 109

Voisin, André, xviii

Walters, Charles, xvii, xi, xiii, xxvi

wars, 173

weeds, 32, 115

westward march, 27

wheat, 56

wheat, protein of, 192

wisdom, animal, 20

wool, 118, 123

world affairs, 167

world soil map, 86