The Online Books Page

Compost

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Organic fertilizers
• Organic wastes
• Soil amendments

• Humus

• Indore process

• The Compost Manufacturers Manual: The Practice of Large Scale Composting (Philadelphia: Pfeiffer Foundation, c1956), by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (third edition, c2005), by Joseph C. Jenkins (PDF files with commentary at jenkinspublishing.com)
• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (second edition, c1999), by Joseph C. Jenkins (illustrated HTML at weblife.org)
• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (first edition, c1994), by Joseph C. Jenkins
  • illustrated HTML at webpal.org
  • PDF at webpal.org
• Organic Gardener's Composting, by Steve Solomon
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text
• An Agricultural Testament (1943 edition), by Albert Howard (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Waste Products of Agriculture (1931), by Albert Howard and Yeshwant D. Wad (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Soil Tests on Upland and Muck; Clover and Sand Lucerne Notes; Wheat Experiments (experiment station bulletin #181; Agricultural College, MI: Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, 1900), by J. D. Towar (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, With Observations on Their Habits, by Charles Darwin
  • HTML with commentary at Charles Darwin Online
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, With Observations on Their Habits (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898), by Charles Darwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Organic Gardener's Composting, by Steve Solomon
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer Innovation with Mucuna, by Daniel Buckles, Bernard Triomphe, and Gustavo Sain (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Fire Suppression Substitutes and Alternatives to Halon for U.S. Navy Applications (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Bats and Bat Exclusion (2004), by Illinois Department of Public Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guano: A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers, Containing Plain Directions How to Apply Peruvian Guano to the Various Crops and Soils of America, With a Brief Synopsis of Its History, Locality, Quantity, Method of Procuring, Prospect of Continued Supply, and Price; Analysis of its Composition, and Value as a Fertilizer, Over All Other Manures (New York: The author, 1853), by Solon Robinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Cornell
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (third edition, c2005), by Joseph C. Jenkins (PDF files with commentary at jenkinspublishing.com)
• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (second edition, c1999), by Joseph C. Jenkins (illustrated HTML at weblife.org)
• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (first edition, c1994), by Joseph C. Jenkins
  • illustrated HTML at webpal.org
  • PDF at webpal.org

• The Use of Organic Residues in Rural Communities (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1983), ed. by Cyril A. Shacklady (HTML at UNU Press)

• The Use of Organic Residues in Rural Communities (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1983), ed. by Cyril A. Shacklady (HTML at UNU Press)

• Underutilized Resources as Animal Feedstuffs (1983), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)