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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on March 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1315 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Sheep, horses, goats, veal calves and mink in the US produce some 120,000-130,000 mg. of nitrogen and 25,000 mg. of phosphorus in their manure annually. Majority of the manure produced by these minor livestock are used in land fertilization with minority of horse manure being used for mushroom production. Problems with odor is more of an issue in the management of these species because the animals are reared near urban areas.

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Title: Manure management for minor classes of livestock in the United States.
Author: J.F. Power
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1994
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v49Issue: n2Page: p123(3)

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Incredible A Lost Treasure.
This book won the national book award in 1963 for fiction. Our hero Father Urban is a little quirky and self-centered; yet even with those faults it is hard not to sympathize with him. I approached this book with some regret. It was the last of Powers' works I would have the chance to read. So I took my time and slowly read chapter by chapter, savoring the book over a much longer period than I normally would. The book was both satisfying and a bit of a disappointment. It was satisfying in that I have now completed the published books of J. F. Powers. It was also sad because of this fact. It was a bit disappointing in that the story feels unfinished. Like a chapter was left out when it went to printing.

Some of the plot was inevitable, and predictable, but the characters you meet along the way make the book very engaging and entertaining. I am a post Vatican II baby. As such, I do not know the Latin Mass - have only read books, and seen films of what the church was like before that period. Powers is a master at creating characters, and characters that are believable. His priests, brothers, monsignors and even bishops are believable to anyone who has had serious interactions even with clergy of today. I know of a priest locally who could be an Urban walking off the page to take up ministry today.

Many segments of this book were previously published as short stories in a variety of sources. Powers was a master at the short story, but his creative genius was his ability to take those short stories and turn them into a convincing novel. He has done this with both his published novels - this book Morte D'Urban and Wheat That Springeth Green. Both books were nominated for the National Book Award and Urban won. That is the testament to Powers' power and prowess with the quill. It is also witness to his ability to transcend the short story, a genre that appears to be going by the wayside, and to compile books of great depth and insight. Modern author Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, wanted to write a book of short stories, but his publisher, even with his popularity after Fight Club, would not allow him a book of short stories. Then Palauniuk wrote Haunted a collection of characters' personal stories told by a group of writers locked in a building. Powers achieves what Palahniuk does not in that his stories flow together seamlessly, where Palahniuk's are obviously individual stories.

This book is worth the read for anyone wanting a glimpse of insight into post World War II Catholicism, especially in the Midwest. But it is also a great study of people and why they do what they do - what drives them to achieve, their dreams and ultimately their failures and defeats. Unfortunately I have now read all of Powers' fiction. Fortunately the 2 books and 3 collections of short stories can be savored again and again. I can predict I have not finished with reading Powers, or Urban. ... Read more

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The study of soils is increasingly important due to growing demands on soils by rapidly expanding populations. Volume 15 of Advances in Soil Sciences is a mixed-topic volume in this series; consisting of five critical review articles: 1. VA Mycorrhizae as modifiers of soil fertility (J.M. Barea, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Granada, Spain) 2. Argillic horizons in modern loess soils in an ustic soil moisture regime? (A. Bronger, University of Kiel, FRG) 3. Myths and scientific realities of agroforestry as a strategy for sustaining management of soils in the tropics (R. Lal, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH) 4. Land evaluation: from intuition to quantification (C.A. van Diepen et al. Winand Staring Center for Integrated Land, Soil and Water Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands) 5. Crop residue management (R. Prasad, Indian Agri- cultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India) ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on July 1, 1995. The length of the article is 740 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Soil Science Simplified, 4th ed. (book reviews)
Author: J.F. Power
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1995
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v50Issue: n4Page: p366(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on March 1, 1994. The length of the article is 6161 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The nutrient cycling process consists of transformation and availability of nutrients from various sources. The process is influenced by different nitrogen sources such as soil organic matter, residual inorganic nitrogen, biological nitrogen denitrification, atmospheric deposits, crop residues, manures, other organic wastes and fertilizers. Management practices consisting of crop rotation systems, tillage methods and crop residue management also affect the nutrient cycling process.

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Title: Understanding the nutrient cycling process. (Nutrient Management)
Author: J.F. Power
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1994
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v49Issue: n2Page: pS16(8)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on March 1, 1994. The length of the article is 7080 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Beef cattle feedlot manure can be used for land fertilization, aquaculture, reclamation of sandy and mined soils, methane gas production and refeeding, among others. Cattle feedlot owners should know the proper disposal and recycling of manure because it provides economic and environmental benefits. Land application of manure improves the physical properties of soil which eventually reduces erosion. Manure recycling, on the other hand, can provide feedlot owners an additional source of income and reduces water and land pollution as a result of cattle feedlot manure runoff.

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Title: Beef cattle feedlot manure management.
Author: Bahman Eghball
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1994
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v49Issue: n2Page: p113(10)

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Tremendous
This short story is a like a sad version of the The Gift of the Magi with the sacrifice, but without the reward. The story is one of an old man looking for work during a depression. He finds a temporary seasonal position, yet his day is long and hard. When he goes home he must act a role with his wife. This is a sad tale of a sad man - a man who has lost it all, but must keep plodding on. While working, he overhears part of a conversation about himself, and he is referred to as the old bird.

This story is heart-wrenching. I have known people like Mr. Newman, men broken and beaten by life, tortured, timid men. The story evokes great emotion.
But what makes this book so excellent is not the story. It is this special edition. The story is enhanced by the illustrations from Barbara Harman. This special edition was created by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. The project created 260 signed, numbered, limited-editions of this soft story. The Old Bird, a Love Story was published by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts on December 7, 1991. It was the fourth in an annual series commissioned to celebrating winter in the Upper Midwest. The story previously appeared in the Rocky Mountain Review, (1944) and in Prince of Darkness and Other Stories (Doubleday, 1947).

The book is a treasure for the Powers' fan, or for a serious bibliophile. Beautiful to hold and read, the book itself is a work of art, let alone the art of the story within on the pages. Gaylord Schanilec, MCBA Artist-in-Residence in 1991, designed and printed the book on Rives Heavyweight. The Garamond type was composition-set at Harold Berliner Type Foundry. There were two editions of this special edition - first the standard edition which consists of 260 copies, numbered and signed by the author and bound by Greg Campbell of Campbell-Logan Bindery in a non-adhesive paper binding. Second the deluxe edition consists of 40 copies, lettered and signed by the author and the artist. This edition is bound by Dennis Ruud in quarter leather with an original monoprint by Barbara Harman in a leather-edged slipcase. These special editions of this book were made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program and with the generous support of Allegra and Paul Parker and Gail and Henry See.

If you can track down this edition, it is tremendous. ... Read more

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First book-length study from 1968
Twayne Publishers (in its "United States" among other series seems to have once sought to cover nearly every writer of note anywhere anytime, So, dutifully, this 1968 study, in less than 200 pages, efficiently surveys this prizewinning if too now little remembered Midwestern mid-20c writer's short stories from the 1947 "Prince of Darkness" and the 1956 "Presence of Grace" collections, as well as the National Book Award novel "Morte d'Urban" (1962). Hagopian notes that this critical investigation was the first extensive, book-length one published, and I sympathized with his acknowledgement that the draft he sent to Powers was "severely criticized," but Hagopian stands his ground after revisions and critiques in vivid and well-written segments many aspects of Powers' fiction, expanding the facile "tragicomic" or "satirical" reactions that previous critics have tended to trot out as stock phrases but have not expanded enough upon. Hagopian also improves upon clerical critics who had tended to place Powers in a "Catholic ghetto" or had reacted uneasily to Powers' keen eye and grim ear for the foibles of men committed to the divine imperative while having to court the worldly powers to keep their parishes running and their debts paid.

Hagopian plays fair to the considerable strengths while accounting for the occasional weaknesses in the stories to date. He is especially adept at navigating the tricky plot direction, deadly accurate but rather astringent prose, and nearly submerged craft beneath not caricatures but characterizations in the challenging "Morte." Notably, he also looks at early and awkward essays for the Catholic Worker, his first stories on the "Negro question" from the early postwar years, and the expected highlight-- Powers' 1950s flourishing as a incisive observer with dry wit and acerbic compassion of Midwestern Catholic clergy in the rural Minnesota prairie towns. This short study complements another (an anthology of critical reviews previously published by reviewers in the 1960s) that came out nearly concurrently by Fallon Evans, and the two books together serve well those interested in this largely overlooked writer.

His world of a largely pre-Vatican II Church did not outlast his own life, and most critics would tend today to regard the peak of Powers in the period Hagopian (and Evans) surveyed. It may be no fault of Hagopian, but perhaps the standards enforced by Twayne restricted the amount of detail that he could provide for some analyses-- those in "Presence" in particular might have gained much from the type of close reading he gives not only to the more famous "Lions, Harts, Leaping Does" and the Father Burner stories but the suburban study "Blue Island." Some stories, naturally, gain more attention, but the pace speeds up (as for "Keystone") when it needed to slow to allow for fuller explication of textual support for Hagopian's general critiques.

After these studies appeared, another short story collection came out in 1975, "Look How the Fish Live," and a second elegiac yet unsparing novel, "Wheat That Springeth Green," in 1988. Powers wrote slowly and carefully over his four-plus decades of activity. His two novels and collected stories (after his death in 1999) have been restored to print by the NY Review Press in the early 00s. ... Read more