Howard, Albert

Howard, Albert. 1940. An Agricultural Testament. London Oxford University Press. 

Howard, Albert. 1947. The Soil and Health A Study of Organic Agriculture. New York The Devin-Adair Company. 

To some extent this concept of a self-regulating nature dovetailed with the idealisation of nature by the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In Albert Howard s words ... 

Organic farming also has cultural roots in the observations of F.H. King, Sir Albert Howard, and others who attempted to discern the principles of a permanent agriculture in the centuries-old farming systems of the world, particularly in the Far East. In the preface to King s book Farmers of Forty Centuries (King 1916), Liberty Hyde Bailey wrote ... 

Early 1900s Sir Albert Howard Developed principles of organic farming... 

His call inspired Lady Eve Balfour (Fig. 1.1) to undertake the Haughley experiment. At the age of 12, in 1910, she had already decided to become a farmer. By 1919, armed with an Agricultural Diploma from the University of Reading, she and her elder sister were farming at Haughley, in Suffolk. In 1938 she met Sir Albert Howard and was deeply influenced by his ideas. Her interest went beyond the health of the soil, incorporating nutritional ideas of healthy diet based on whole foods grown in healthy soil. 

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Perhaps the most striking of these figures was Albert Howard (later Sir Albert), an agricultural researcher who worked under local patronage for more than three decades in India. He was known chiefly for the Indore process, a scientific procedure of making humus from organic... 

The key step in this process seems to be the below-ground, symbiotic fungus-root structures (mycorrhizal association) studied closely by Sir Albert Howard. See chapter 7. 

Ml. McArthur, J. W., Howard, A., Somerville, A., Perley, R., and Keyes, C., Relative recovery of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone from postmenopausal urine by Albert and Johnsen methods. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metah. 27, 529-533 (1967). 

The technical contributions made to the development of hydrophobically modified nonionic water-soluble polymers by several Hercules and Aqualon workers are gratefully acknowledged. Particular mention is made of contributions made by George C. Harris, Albert R. Reid, Richard D. Royce, Kathryn G. Griffith, Dianne P. Leipold, Lisa A. Burmeister, Robert A. Gelman, Howard G. Barth, Carol A. Steiner, and Kenneth E. Steller. We are also thankful to Ernst K. Just and Thomas G. Majewicz for their comments and suggestions. 

The organic movement owes its origin primarily to the work and inspiration of Sir Albert Howard (1931, 1940). Howard was a botanist and plant pathologist who worked in the West Indies, India, and Great Britain. It was in India that he developed the Indore process for the manufacture of compost from vegetables and animal wastes. It was during... 

Howard, L. (1954), Sir Albert Howard in India, Rodale Press, United States of Ameriea. 

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