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Over 50 percent of the goal of the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund has already been subscribed, Reverend Frederic B. Kellogg announced last night, and "the money is still coming...
Established in memory of the late Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory who died last January 18, the fund is being raised by a Faculty committee chaired by the Reverend Frederic B. Kellogg, Chaplain to Episcopal students and Rector of Christ Church...
Funeral services for Professor Theodore Spencer will be held at Christ Church at 12 noon today. Rev. Frederick B. Kellogg and Dean Sperry will officiate...
Another agricultural cult popular with city gardeners is "organic farming." Organic matter is an important component of soils, says Dr. Kellogg, "but the advocates of the organic matter doctrine go very far. They insist that ... the usual chemical fertilizers are downright poisonous to soils; that the liberal use of compost gives special qualities to plants-they will be free of insects and diseases; and that animals, or even people, will be ever so much more healthy by eating plants grown 'the organic way.' " Most of this is silly, says Dr. Kellogg politely. Organic compost is no cureall...
...Kellogg does not believe, as some theorists do, that soil deterioration caused the fall of older civilizations. When soil goes to pot, the causes lie deeper than farming practices, he says. "Generally, when a rural population becomes poverty-stricken, it fails to maintain its soil. An exploited people pass on their suffering to the land. Low prices, disease and wars are all important causes. Things get on a hand-to-mouth or year-to-year basis . . . Where farmers can take a long view of production, there are very few instances of conflict between those practices that give most return...