(Part 2) Best agricultural science books according to redditors
We found 127 Reddit comments discussing the best agricultural science books. We ranked the 62 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
If you read the book The Pack Goat, it will detail how many breeds of goat simply are not suitable for the task. You can put packs and leads on a Nubian or Boer goat but will seldom get it to do anything resembling what you want. I know, I raised them.
Basically any breed with floppy ears is completely content to say "fuck you and your plans" all day long, while nibbling on your jeans and shoelaces.
RHS Latin for gardeners. Its a lovely illustrated hardback.. listing roots of plant nomenclature with small features on reoccuring themes.
"RHS Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/184533731X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_wwj8BbRQHQTH4
All right. Just went through my library and the following stood out to me:
Desert Solitaire (1968) by Edward Abbey: One of the best American voices for conservation spent some seasons as a park ranger in the desert southwest. Here are some brilliant, funny, and soundly critical musings inspired by his time there.
A Continuous Harmony (1972) & The Unsettling of America (1977) by Wendell Berry: In my opinion, Wendell Berry is the best cultural critic we've ever had. He's 86 now and still a powerful voice of reason in a chaotic society. Dismissed mistakenly by fools as someone who just wants to go back to the old days, he offers much-needed critiques on our decomposing relationship to the land and what it's been doing to our culture.
Night Comes to the Cumberlands (1962) by Harry M. Caudill: This Kentucky native saw what the predatory and morally bankrupt coal industry had done to the people and land (and the relationship between the two) in Appalachia and outlined how it all happened in powerful inarguable detail. This book serves as a stern warning about what chaos and destruction industries can bring forth when profit is their only concern. Anyone wondering why Appalachia is full of depressed drug addicts can find the roots of those issues in this book, which inspired The War on Poverty.
The Big Sky (1947) by A.B. Guthrie Jr. : A classic novel about a young kid who runs away to join the fur trade in the frontier days. It tells a very believable story, rather than chasing the overblown myths of the West like most novels dealing with that subject.
Shantyboat (1977) & Payne Hollow by Harlan Hubbard: He and his wife Anna built a truly rewarding and pleasant life together almost entirely independent of modern industrial society in the 1940s and 50s, first floating down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers on a shantyboat they built, living from temporary gardens and trading with people they met along the river, and then settling into Payne Hollow where they lived a realer-than-Thoreau existence together for decades. True love, and true meaningful living.
Of Wolves and Men (1978) by Barry Lopez: Rogan seems to think he's some kind of authority on wolves and I cringe every time I hear him start talking about them. It doesn't begin and end with "These are savage fucking predators that need to be controlled!" He seriously needs to read this book, which is a beautifully-written and exhaustive look at the history of the relationship between human and wolves. Like most interesting things, it is a complex issue.
My Life With The Eskimo (1909?) by Vilhjalmur Stefansson: The accounts of an ethnologist traveling through the arctic before much contact had been made between Europeans and Natives. Incredible stories of survival and the inevitable interesting situations that occur when two vastly different cultures meet.
The Marsh Arabs (1964) & Arabian Sands (1959) by Wilfred Thesiger: This dude went deep. Deep into the marshes of Southern Iraq and deep into the Empty Quarter of Arabia. Both books are amazing accounts of voyages through incredible parts of the world whose geography and people have since been changed forever.
The Mountain People (1972) by Colin M. Turnbull: This anthropologist lived with the Ik in Uganda as they went through a complete cultural disintegration brought on by starvation during a drought. Reading this, one sees how quickly complete tragic anarchy takes hold when basic resources are in desperate need. Humanity went out the window.
Let me know if you ever read any of these, and how you like them. I would bet they provide anyone with good food for thought and discussion.
Ah, hard-core, I like it. I was considering living off grid on a boat at one point and came across this cool book called "sailing the farm" which was all about growing your food in small spaces. A lot of sprouting and small hydro setups. It's out of print and expensive used but I think I was able to grab a PDF on the piratebay, here's the Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Farm-Survival-Guide-Homesteading/dp/0898150515#nav-search-keywords
Are you asking for flavor creation from scratch or are you looking for guidance how to blend premade flavors? I think both has a lot to do with trial and error and to have a good picture of all the things you are mixing together.
Here are some books, although I think this probably too much information and it's questionable how much reading them helps you:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1932633723/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470551305/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/3527314067/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/364208043X/
Oh well for soil this is my favorite suggestion: http://www.amazon.com/Soil-Science-Simplified-Helmut-Kohnke/dp/0881338133
The reason I mentioned finding out what is normally or traditionally grown there is that those are the kinds of plants that are going to be easiest to grow there. This region looks straight up tropical, which means that reading sources that are meant for temperate regions with temperate region problems may not help you out too much. Growing plants has a huuuuuge local aspect about it, you want to tap into local knowledge. That's why people are recommending the local universities, if that makes sense.
I used Mauseth's Intro to Plant Biology. Helped me get through my botany courses.
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Sorry, this very likely won't be any help for you at all, but as I've seen a few people with Germany flairs in the sub who might wander by: This is the first book I bought, and quite educational. It's two books bound into one, a beginner and an advanced one. Beautiful pictures in it too.
Hi! I've spent the past few days watching some online videos offered for free as part of a sustainability conference for anyone interested in managing or working on small farms. The conference website: www.smallfarmsummit.org . (The conference has finished, however. I just wanted to provide the source of my information.) One of the participants, Zach Wolf, delivered a video called, "Your Relationship to Soil Fertility Management." At the end, he mentioned these texts as sources for more information and research:
I haven't read any of them yet. I hope they are of some help to you. :)
This book saved my butt in clinics.
Small Animal Medical Differential Diagnosis: A Book of Lists https://www.amazon.com/dp/1416032681/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_iWx0Db8P0KAR5
Rat Catching by actor and weirdo Crispin Glover.
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Living with Sheep: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Flock by Geoff Hansen and Chuck Wooster.
I don't have sheep myself, but I once spoke with a bit too much passion about them. This is probably the most useful one in my exhaustive collection of sheep-related books that I've gotten for my birthdays.
https://www.amazon.com/Reproductive-Biology-Phylogeny-Cetacea-Porpoises/dp/1578083605
Read it for all of us!
You should check out George Ritzer's The McDonaldization of Society. Not a bad little book. http://www.amazon.com/The-McDonaldization-Society-Anniversary-Edition/dp/1452226695
this book is an excellent reference. the drug protocols are a little outdated, but the photos and diagrams of all the parasites, eggs and their life cycles are spot on. it's great to keep a copy near your lab area to flip through if you're ever not sure about something.
https://www.amazon.com/Veterinary-Parasitology-Reference-William-Foreyt/dp/0813824192
Correct. If I buy a specialist book I expect to pay $130+. Most I ever paid was about $200. (In the old days we used to just photocopy them.)
There are some lovely exceptions. There's the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (waterproof plastic softcover; gotta love it), which I think is cheap due to the fact that they sell so many, and the [Merck Veterinary Manual](http://www.amazon.com/Merck-Veterinary-Manual-Cynthia-Kahn/dp/0911910506/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249130771&sr=8-1 (hardcover), which is subsidised by, er, Merck.
It's just an Omax. I forget which model, but nothing overly fancy. And yeah just a drop of blood on a slide with a slip. Sealed around the edges with oil to slow oxidation. The "vacuoles" appear outside the objects as well. In fact that's where i first noticed them, but i just thought them to be debris until i saw them clustered inside the structure.
I'm not really sure what causes them to grow larger. One of the problems with these sorts of morphologies is that they vary widely from one species to the next and take on so many intermediary forms i really can't keep up with it. That's why when i couldn't find a WBC that looked like it and remembered the "fried egg" description i had to wonder about it. They can be triggered by some natural compounds like lysozyme as well as their own autolysins. I think the typical view is that they're mere laboratory curiosities caused by things like penicillin but this has been challenged and they probably represent various naturally occurring developmental paths a microorganism takes in response to environmental conditions. https://www.amazon.com/Cell-Wall-Deficient-Forms-Third/dp/0849387671 Also, i should state my blood is loaded with antibacterials though they are all derived from complex plant mixtures so i couldn't tell you the mechanism of action.
I do think you're probably right though. It's probably just a WBC and due to the nature of my health the presentation is not typical. The size is pretty consistent from one object to the next which probably wouldn't be expected of organisms growing independently. I still have to wonder what those orbs are though. I wish i had switched my major to microbiology when i knew what was good for me, ha. I feel like an absolute dunce on this scope.
I have an old copy of this book.
It has samples of the different woods. Lovely.