The Best Kept Secret to Successful Farming, Part II

Originally published as a blog for the Plymouth Historical Society on November 13th, 2018. In The Best Kept Secret to Successful Farming, Part I, I examined W.E. Taylor’s book, Soil Culture and Modern Farming Methods (1913). In it, Taylor implores American farmers to use manure as a primary source of soil fertility maintenance. So where does the United States find itself today? Farming […]

The Best Kept Secret to Successful Farming, Part 1

Originally published as a blog for the Plymouth Historical Society on November 5th, 2018. It is an obvious oversimplification to say that the world has changed substantially over the past 100 years. With the dawn of the Internet and the boom of the information and technological age, there are many aspects of our life today that would be unrecognizable to […]