Small
farms
Common-Sense Compost Making

By the Quick Return Method

by Maye E. Bruce

Bibliography

Balfour, E.B., The Living Soil, Faber & Faber.
Baker, Alma, The Labouring Earth, Heath Cranton.
Bell, John, Nature's Remedies, Pitman.
Billington, F.H., Compost for Garden Plot or 1,000-acre Farm, Faber & Faber.
Grant, Doris, Your Daily Bread, Faber & Faber.
Grieve and Leyell, A Modern Herbal, Jonathan Cape.
Lakhovsky, G., The Secret of Life, W. Heinemann.
Pearse, I., The Peckham Experiment, G. Allen & Unwin.
Picton, Dr. L., editor, The Compost News Letter.



Next:
How to use Q.R. Compost Activator
-- Chase Organics pamphlet

Table of Contents
Foreword by L.F. Easterbrook
1. Introductory Note
2. The Story of Quick-Return Compost
3. The How and the Why of the Heap
4. The Compost and the Garden
5. Effect on Human Health
6. The Activator
7. The Conviction

Appendices
1. Table 1. Building the Garden Heap

-- Table 2. Building the Straw Heap
-- Table 3. Manure Tubs
-- Table 4. Leaf Heap
-- Table of Failures, Causes and Remedies
2. Formulae for Herbal Powder
3. Directions for Treating the Heap
4. Price of Powder Activator
5. Herbs -- and Where to Find Them
6. Alternative Plants and their Constituents
7. Some Useful Hints
8. Plan for a Small Bin
9. Plan for a Movable Bin

Bibliography

How to use Q.R. Compost Activator
-- Chase Organics pamphlet

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