title: Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations
author:  M.B. Kirkham 
description: M. B. Kirkham is a Professor in the Department of Agronomy at Kansas State University. Her research involves two areas: soil-plant-water relations and uptake of heavy metals by crops grown on polluted soil (called phytoremediation). Dr. Kirkham is currently collaborating with colleagues at the Kansas State University Northwest Research-Extension Center in Colby, Kansas to study yield and water relations of sorghum grown under the semi-arid conditions of far western Kansas. Dr. Kirkham serves on several editorial boards: Soil Science; Journal of Crop Improvement; International Agrophysics; Crop Science; Australian Journal of Soil Research; Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment; Agricultural Water Management; Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research; Agricultural, Food and Analytical Bacteriology; and Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. In addition, Dr. Kirkham has received the CSSA Crop Science Research Award and the 2010-11 Iman Outstanding Faculty Award for Research.
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  # The First Book of Farming
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles L. Goodrich
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  
  
  
  PART I. General Principles Underlying Plant Culture
  
  
  
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION TO PLANTS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. ROOTS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. SOILS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. RELATION OF SOILS TO WATER
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. FORMS OF SOIL WATER
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. LOSS OF SOIL WATER
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. SOIL TEMPERATURE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. PLANT FOOD IN THE SOIL
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX. SEEDS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X. SEED PLANTING
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI. SPADING AND PLOWING
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII. HARROWING AND ROLLING
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIII. LEAVES
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIV. STEMS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XV. FLOWERS
  
  
  PART II. Soil Fertility as Affected by Farm
  
  
  Operations and Farm Practices
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVI. A FERTILE SOIL
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVII. SOIL WATER
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVIII. THE AFTER-CULTIVATION OF CROPS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIX. FARM MANURES
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XX. FARM MANURES—CONCLUDED
  
  
    
  