Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-12-07

attention TO that law as furnishing
one of the most convincing arguments
for the existence OF the Great and
Good Creator. There has been no
human need developed but what soon
after q source Of supply has been
discovered. IT that does not evidence
not only a good Creator but IA wise
oyerruling Providence, then IL is i'm
possible for God To make any revela-
ton of himself To man.
when advancing science had re-
yealed the need of phosphoric acid In
poor and exhausted soils, mines OF
phosphate were found in England,
France, Germany, Spain, the Islands
Of the Caribbean Sea, Canada, the
United States and elsewhere, and the
supply which has been discovered in
the past few years is sufficient for the
agriculture Of untold thousands OF
years. How great is thy goodness
Oh Lord which thou hast laid up in
these mines OF phosphate!
What Of potash? few years ago
science shook its head. The visible
supply was very small. But scientists
went around with their eyes open and
10. and behold! In Germany bed
was found go miles square. Muriate
of this potash has been brought 10
| this country at u cost OF $500 10 the
acre, and the result is % difference be-
tween corn crop so poor as 10 be
hardly worth husking, and a crop OF
60 bushels TO the acre and a most ex-
cellent growth of stalks. That w
square miles of potash Is w square
miles of Gods goodness laid up in the
storehmse of nature for the sons OF
men.
The other element Is nitrogen.
Where shall it be obtained? From the
atmosphere, four-fifths of which con-
sists of nitrogen, laid up goodness for
future use. But how can II be put
into the soil? Until recently science
shook her head in answer To that
question, but hope stimulated the
student TO his researches, and the
experimenter to his experiments, with
the result that now processes have
been discovered by which II can be
made available. Glover is one OF the
means employed, for clover can seige
hold OF the nitrogen of the air in large
quantities and incorporate-it into its
leaves and then by turning the clover
under the soil the nitrogen OF the air
becomes an element of the soil. ALI
alta, vetch, beans, and peas serve the
same purpose. Considering the
great Importance Of alfalfa in large
part Of the country, and especially In
the irrigated regions OF the west It's
power To acquire nitrogen is certainly
a weighty matter.
BY the reform of agricultural meth
DDS and by the application OF plant
food to the soil, the seed can be made
to yield not simply one hundred but a
thousand fold.
! But the soil is only one OF many
such repositories OF goodness. | might
have spoken at equal length and with
even more striking proof OF the good
ness of the Creator as seen In the
wonderful INSTRUMENTATION OF the
globe. as we see it rising from the
ocean and being waited by the breezes
over the land, descending again In
refreshing rains and fertilizing SHOWS
upon the soil, and without which, the
soil would be of little avail; which
water enters so largely into the foods
we need, for our vegetables and even
our meats consist in larger proportion
OF water elements than OF other more
solid substances. And what we do
not appreciate in this western country