Rockingham post-dispatch., 1921-05-05
AN OLD IDEA.

plOwing them under for the enrich
ment of the soil, but instead of &C
cepting this advice, ancient farmers
planted the soil robbing crops only
They learned that by deep plowins
and thorough cultivation they coulC
increase their yields. They KEEP
this up until the humus of the sol
was destroyed, and the soil macteria
which unlocked the plant food of thc
soil, were dead, and we ,c2' today
in their history that the soils were
no longer productive The farm
c"l became poor, whole populations
became rel~ hNc!y unprosperous, the
whole people became dissatisfied
morose, hopeless and therefore help
less-the foundation of all prosper
ity and contentment had been neg
lected or destroyed through soil
robbery, and history tells the result,
the attributed principally 10 otEcr
causes than soil robbery.
In The Beginning.
(Of creation) God created two
great divisions of plants: the soil
builders and the soil robbers. He
intended that the soil buildcrsI
should receive first consideration,
and wrote the lesson of DISTINCTION
between the two classes so plain
that any child can determinsfhe one
from the other by noting the bios
soms-all legumes (soil builders),
about 1000 species in number, hav-
ing pea-shaped blossoms, even the
heads of clover being made up of a
cluster of tiny "marrky-faced" bios
SONS. Another distinction causists
Of nodules growing on the roots of
all legumes grown under, proper en-
Lvironment, In our craze for cotton
which we ignorantly believed would
enrich US by supplying us with
money, the love of which we are
told is the root Of all evil" even
the evil of soil poverty in this in
stance. We have by neglecting to
|plant the various soil builders, al
lowed their inocuiating bacteria to
|starve and die in practically all our
soils. We are, therefore, repeating
the history of the Romans and 9th
er ancients by ignoring the soil
builders, thinking that we can sue
ceed by deep plowing and intensive
cultivation. In addition to their
practice, we think we can succeed
by buying ommonia in bags and
feeding our own crops as they
heed it.
Be Not Deceived.
The farmer who buys ammonia
nitrogen) when through the legu-
mes, nature offers it free and with
t, humus which is more essential
than nitrogen-such a farmer is
acting just about as foolishly as the
Ilairyingman who expects to succeed
by feeding his cows cotton seed
meal and corn without feeding any
|roughage.
"The Prince of This World
Hath blinded your eyes, said Jesus
ito the doctors of the law in His day.
|lt could seem that the same prince"
hath blinded our eyes to the great
law OF nature that requires an equal
acreage of winter and summer soil
|Dullders Ito that of other crops) to
|be planted and turned into the soil
annually if we expect success. Sure
ly nothing less than such blindness
caused by such powerful price
could longer hold us in such agri-
cultural poverty.
"oh Ye OF Little Faith"
Said Jesus to his disciples. II He
were walking here in His second
appearance, today, and should be
called upon to say a word in agri-
cultures defense, His Introductory
remarks would likely be: "Oh We
OF little faith in Gods great laws of
nature. Why do We not read in
them the secert of your success?
Why do We rob yourselves by rob
bing your soil, and then complain |
of adversity9 Verify, verify, / say |
unto you, he that obeyeth these
avs Of my Father in Heaven, shall !
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