Midlands State University Library

Agriculture : (including nutrition, fisheries and forestry)

Berkoff, N. A.

Agriculture : (including nutrition, fisheries and forestry) created by N A Berkoff - London Oxford University Press 1971 - 255 pages - English studies series 10 .

Includes index.

Chapter 1 The principles of crop production (1), 2 - The principles of crop production (2), 3 - Nutritive processes in animals, 4 - Developing animal resources, 5 - Mendel's first law, 6 - Improving the soil (1), 7 - Improving the soil (2), 8 - The development of agriculture in Britain, 9 - The forest as a community, 10 - Tree planting practices for arid zones, 11 - Calories and calorie requirements, 12 - Carbohydrates and fats, 13 - Proteins, 14 - Improving the world's fisheries, 15 - Different kinds of fish culture, 16 - Salting of Herrings, 17 - Soils and agriculture, 18 - The scope of ecology, 19 - Salt-water agriculture, 20 - Nuclear physics and agriculture.

The twenty extracts contained in this volume are taken from books and articles, mainly on agriculture but also including nutrition, forestry and fisheries. Each extract is followed by explanatory notes on words and phrases, and then exercises to aid comprehension, practice grammar and increase vocabulary.A key to the exercises is provided and also a selected pronouncing vocabulary covering the more unusual scientific and technical terms in the extracts.

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