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• 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, by Charles Darwin (multiple editions)

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

• 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)

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

• Winter Annual Legumes for the South (USDA Farmers' Bulletin #2146; 1960), by P. R. Henson and E. A. Hollowell (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 ABC of Soils (New Brunswick, NJ: Pedology Publications, 1949), by Jacob S. Joffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soils and Fertilizers (third edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1942), by Firman E. Bear
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Story of the Soil, from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Cyril G. Hopkins
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Vertical Farming (Wilmington: E. I. duPont de Nemours Powder Co., c1915), by Gilbert Ellis Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cation Exchange in Soils (ACS monograph #109; New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1948), by W. P. Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Farm That Won't Wear Out (1913), by Cyril G. Hopkins
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Soil Test Interpretation Studies: Laboratory and Potted Plant (North Carolina State University Agricultural Experiment Station technical bulletin #3; 1966), by D. L. Waugh and J. W. Fitts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Subsurface Exploration and Sampling of Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes: Report on a Research Project of the Committee on Sampling and Testing, Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division, American Society of Civil Engineers (Vicksburg, MS: Waterways Experiment Station, 1949), by Mikael Juul Hvorslev and American Society of Civil Engineers Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali: or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze (Akron, OH and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1910), by Frank Gee Patchin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Soil Survey, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pima County, Arizona: A Special Report (1972), by United States. Soil Conservation Service, United States National Park Service, and University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station (PDF at National Park Service)

• Handbook of Erosion Control In Mountain Meadows (US Forest Service typescript; 1934), by C. J. Kraebel and Arthur F. Pillsbury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Land Resources of the People's Republic of China (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1983), ed. by Kenneth Ruddle and Wu Chuanjun (illustrated HTML at UNU)

• Keys to Soil Taxonomy (current edition (at this writing, 2014)), by United States Department of Agriculture (PDF at usda.gov)

• Bulletin (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology) (partial serial archives)

• Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Düngung, Teil A: Wissenschaftlicher Teil (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Understanding and Managing Irrigated Acid Sulfate and Salt-Affected Soils: A Handbook for the Lower Murray Reclaimed Irrigation Area (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2017), by R. W. Fitzpatrick, Luke Mosley, and Freeman J. Cook (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Methods for Producing Alumina from Clay: An Evaluation of Five Hydrochloric Acid Processes (1962), by Frank A. Peters, Paul Watson Johnson, and Ralph C. Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ceramics: Clay Technology (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1927), by Hewitt Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clay and Glazes for the Potter (Philadelphia et al.: Chilton Book Co., c1957), by Daniel Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recovery of Lithium From Clay by Selective Chlorination (report of investigations 8523; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1981), by C. F. Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (c2013), ed. by Tomoko M. Nakanishi and Keitaro Tanoi (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Big Hugh, the Father of Soil Conservation (New York: Macmillan, 1951), by Wellington Brink, contrib. by Louis Bromfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sustainable Soil Management, by Preston Sullivan (illustrated HTML at attra.org)
• An Agricultural Testament (1943 edition), by Albert Howard (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Factors of Soil Formation: A System of Quantitative Pedology (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1941), by Hans Jenny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sustainable Soil Management, by Preston Sullivan (illustrated HTML at attra.org)

• Principles of Soil Mechanics (Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley, c1963), by Ronald F. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soil Mechanics (Princeton, NJ et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1962), by Alfreds R. Jumikis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subsurface Exploration and Sampling of Soils for Civil Engineering Purposes: Report on a Research Project of the Committee on Sampling and Testing, Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division, American Society of Civil Engineers (Vicksburg, MS: Waterways Experiment Station, 1949), by Mikael Juul Hvorslev and American Society of Civil Engineers Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1948), by Donald W. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth Pressures and Retaining Walls (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1957), by Whitney Clark Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Principles of Soil Microbiology (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1927), by Selman A. Waksman (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.