The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-21

DOWNRIGHT by Quick
There pastures In Australia, OF u KIND OF nei-
bage called kangaroo grass. Live stock fed on TINS
grass for too long time suffer from lata ulseS 9
OF the skeleton called by the farmers bone disease
The OF II has been mystery until lateiy.
Scientists have known that the soil is dehclent IN
phosphorus-but they did not know that lne pIan .
growing out OF it were also poor IN 'nls ele' I,
Recently IL has been discovered that these plants
have adjusted themselves TO the lack OF pnospnouS
so that they have only onetenth OF the phosphoric
acid in their makeup that crops must nave On "n'H
animals with bony skeletons can lNe'
The bone disease is thus accounted for. Phos-
phorus is essential part of bone as Well as OF
blood and or flesh Any race which possesses pone
and sinew, good red blood must teed On piahss
receiving phosphorus from the SOIL or on animals
which have done 500 dependent are We VINO are
made in the image OF God ON the very aust oenealn
our feet, for moral well as physea eAs'ehee'
III the soil on which a nation lives loses It's pnos-
phorus, that nation must die-or 60 Out Killing anu
marauding seeking other lands
Animals have been fed as an experiment On ioous
deficient in phosphorus For while they seemed 10
do we'll Then they collapsed. II takes only .nree
months Of a ration without phosphorus TO wreck an
animal Individual creatures were killed after
month OF this diet and 1t was FOUND tnat the nesn
was taking the phosphate-for the phosphorus eAs.s
in the body In that form-from the bones 10 supply
its need. In other words the body was eauns l.s
own bones! When this process had robbed the Dones
the limit, the collapse came and the amman eouu
Now as Passengers on the Good Ship Earth. II will
be worth while look into the hold or the snip
and how much phosphorus God put into the DUNK
wireless control TO whirl we know not where Snall
we find enough? Are a race doomed ater
many famines and pestilences, and many wars ana
rumors OF wars, TO die-perhaps OF starvation per-
haps bone disease, and TO leave the snip teiess
or to plants like those OF Australia which have
10 do with little phosphorus or to homeless anlmsIs
fitted for a similar phosphsteless life1
This Is the indispensable element In which we nno
the soils of the world poorest In the original rocks
there Is only eleven ndredths or one per cent OF IL
on the average. Good virgin soils are even poorer
than this 1t Is a good soil indeed which has 1000
pounds of phosphorus the top eight inches OF SOIL
So we see that In the process OF making SOIL large
part OF the original stock Is lost.
Where we have worked the soil-the dust on
the planks OF the Good Ship Earth-untl II Is said
to be exhausted find that II Is the phosphorus
which goneor nearly Old soils from the levei
coastal plain of Virginia said TO be too poor 10 work
test as low as $40 pounds phosphorus In the upper
900 900 pounds OF soil The worn-out fields OF
Asia are very poor in phosphorus. Some depleted
soils In India have found to show only what the
chemists call trace of t-too little to measure.
In the youth Of the race these old fields made men
but they now deserts
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank
deepl
And Bahram that great Huntsr-the Wild ASS
stamps DER his Head. but cannot break his
Sleep!
And the Lion and the Lizard will return to keep
the courts where we reign and glory and drink deep
when the phosphorus OF the soil goes And then the
lion and the Lizard will themselves go the same
road And then the Good Ship Earth Will sail the
Ilmitabe fields space without Passengersl s that
what the Fates have In store for US?
A fair crop of wheat takes from each acre OF the