Consideration of the means of health achievement should properly begin at the soil. Though this has been too little understood, one of man’s most precious possessions is (or should be) a fertile and
The Trace Elements
Article One The most valuable packages are often the smallest. So it appears to be with trace elements, vitally important to crops, livestock, and humans. Small things make base men proud. –Wm. Shakespeare
A Critical Discussion of Trace Elements and Biodynamic Agriculture
In The Land,1 Russell Lord reports the high points of the McCollum-Pratt Seminar on the Trace Elements.2 (Keep in mind that the object of this seminar was to make tentative plans for a
How Our Government Subsidizes Malnutrition and Disease
The term “Iron Curtain” in recent years has been applied to that enforced barrier set up by totalitarian governments to prevent outsiders from knowing the conditions inside their own country, and to prevent
Speech on Milk, Butter, Pesticides, Herbicides
The relationship of healthy livestock and healthy plants to the health of man has been taken for granted. Very little study on these very points has entered into the consideration of food. The
Streptococci Thermal Antibody for the Treatment and Prevention of Epidemic Poliomyelitis
In studies on the production of streptococcal antibodies in vitro, it has been found that as the bacteria disintegrate in NaCl solution suspensions on application of heat in the autoclave, toxic components are
Cows Are Capable Soil Chemists in Assaying Forages and the Soils Growing Them
We are coming to realize that the cow, like other animals, is endowed with some uncanny capacities for selecting her feeds. When she selects some plant family, like the clover, and takes it
The Vitamin P Group Of the C Complex
The promotion of rutin from buckwheat is another revival of an old household remedy. Millspaugh’s American Medicinal Plants (1887) states that the only uses on record of the buckwheat plant are that an