An honestly enforced food and drug law is just as essential to the proper operation of commerce in foods and drugs as the rules and an umpire to administer them in a ball
Our Soils, Our Food, and Ourselves
The weather has always been considered a very important factor in our agricultural production. Located as we are in the cornbelt, for example, of the central United States, we talk much about the
Soil Microbes Get Their Food First
It was less than three generations ago that Pasteur’s work in France suggested the bacterial causation of disease. Even though we are coming to see that the bacterial entry into the body may
Diversity of Amino Acids in Legumes According to the Soil Fertility
Agriculture is concerned with the synthesis of food. Our ultimate goal in this industry has always been the increase of production, i.e. greater numbers and more pounds, per acre. Too often only such
Soil Acidity Is Beneficial Not Detrimental
Only recently have we come to appreciate the services by soil acidity in mobilizing, making available, many of the nutrients in the rocks and minerals of the soil. When we learned that soils
For Heart Disease: Vitamin E
A medical battle royal is raging in Canada. Three physicians in Ontario claim to have found the simplest, most effective treatment ever devised for North America’s No. 1 killer–heart disease. Allied against them,
Acute Poliomyelitis Treated with Thermal Antibody
Twenty consecutive cases of acute poliomyelitis were treated during the 1946 season with thermal poliomyelitis antibody. The table shows the important details concerning each patient. In this series the first case had its
Some Rates of Fertility Decline
Fig. 1. Continuous timothy since 1888 with regular applications of manure is still making good hay (left), but without manure it is taken by broom sedge (right). Upper photo–before blooming; lower photo–during blooming.