Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose, would be understood and condemned by many as politically inspired ... It would be peculiarly repugnant to. me to have it felt that I sought to capitalize to political advantage, as many have frankly urged, the public good will which might manifest itself upon my first return to American soil . . . For such good will would find its inspiration in the victory which crowned our Pacific war effort to which countless gallant Americans, living and dead, contributed . . . Usurpation of such good will to serve a political end would be a shameless breach of faith...
Never before has farming been so full of faddists making loud claims and crying simple cures. In the latest issue of the authoritative Scientific Monthly, Dr. Charles E. Kellogg, head of the Division of Soil Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture, assesses them all with a skeptical eye. Some of the popular theories, he believes, have good things in them, but none of them tell the whole story...
...oldest of the fashionable farming theories, says Dr. Kellogg, teaches that "the soil is like a bank"; the farmer must deposit (in fertilizer) as much as he takes out (in crops), or eventually overdraw his account. This is true only in certain cases, says Dr. Kellogg. Many soils can be cropped indefinitely without loss of fertility. The chemical elements taken away by crops are restored by silt, dust and volcanic ash. Other chemicals work their way up from below. Dr. Kellogg does not believe that fertilizers are unnecessary, but he thinks that farmers who follow the "bank" theory often waste...
There are hardly any New Dealers left in the Department of Agriculture, which was once brimful of them. Charles Franklin Brannan, 44, former Denver attorney, who entered the Department under Henry Wallace, is one of the few. He is Assistant Secretary, in charge of soil conservation, grazing and irrigation programs...
...wheat grows taller here than anywhere else," said Jean Boewet. "All farmers know that human blood is good for the soil...