New Releases by Richard Adams

Analyses of 1960 to 1980 change in crude birth rates in Asian, Latin American, and all LDCs found a significant impact of social development, but no significant impact of economic development, net of family planning program activity. Social development indicators were narrowed to life expectancy and adult literacy. Implications for policies to reduce birth rates in LDCs are discussed.

Gathers tales about the origins of things, the characteristics of animals, and encounters with magic, fear, and enchantment

A fox terrier and a black labrador escape from an animal research station and must run for their lives when it is rumored they are carriers of a plague.

The adventures of two young inexperienced Tygers who set out from Victorian England into the timeless unknown.

Plants and animals are discussed in the ways they adjust to each season.

Periodic information on fertilizer use by crops provides reference points that are widely used by public and private agencies and by individuals. Identification of changes in levels and patterns of fertilizer use is a necessary part of analysis of changes in farm technology and of farm adjustment problems closely related to these changes. The reference points provided by the estimates presented here, together with information on crop yield response to changing technology, are useful in projecting potentials in crop production and in projecting demand for fertilizer and other nonfarm inputs. This report includes estimates of use of principal plant nutrients on individual crops for the 50 States, and for State parts of agricultural subregions for the 48 contiguous States, for whole subregions, and for the United States by major regions.

In this bulletin an attempt is made to bring together in one place comprehensive statistics of fertilizer production, consumption, foreign trade, and kindred topics, as they relate to the United States . Also included are data on agricultural liming materials , gypsum, and peat. This compilation should serve, among other things, as an aid in charting the progress in the several phases of the subject; in evaluating national, regional, and State trends in the use of fertilizers and related materials; in forecasting their requirements for future use; in developing programs for expanding their production with respect to quantities and types of products and to plant location; in studies of the economics of their use in relation to farm income, crop production, and land-management practices; and in guiding their allocation in time of emergency.