Word: kellogg
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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...
Friendly Erosion. Erosion is another menace that Dr. Kellogg thinks has been oversold. Some soils erode badly, he says, but others do not, even on steep, long-cultivated slopes. Great gullies cutting through a field destroy its value, but gradual erosion does little harm and may even be beneficial. When the topsoil washes gradually away, the subsoil may turn into topsoil with renewed fertility. "Much [erosion]," says Dr. Kellogg, "is a perfectly normal concomitant of mountain building and wearing down ... An important part is essential to the formation of productive soils. One cannot, or should not, try to stop erosion...
...clock program will be a wrestling exhibition between Harvard 165-pounder Donald Louria and M.I.T. captain Whit Mauzy, whom Louria edged this winter, 4 to 3. Fencers Neil McNeil and Bill Raney will put on foil and sabre exhibitions with M.I.T.'s Mario Abbatte and Frank Kellogg...
...David M. Kellogg, 34-year-old Seattle veteran who was awarded Russia's Patriotic War Order, First Class, as commander of a U.S. destroyer escort in the North Atlantic, discovered that his medal carried a monthly pension of 20 rubles for life. Fortnight ago he walked into the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, walked out with $462.79, for 26 months' back...