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Skeptical peasants first have to be taught to use fertilizer. In the past, the Soviet variety has been so poor in nutrient that many countrymen agree with the farmer who confided to a friend last week: "Chemistry is all right, but what really counts is dung." Then it has to get to the fields, mostly in areas served by crude dirt roads that turn to quagmires in winter. More than 25% of Khrushchev's precious fertilizer is usually wasted in transit. Shipped in boxcars, the coarse Russian mixture sometimes cakes so hard that it has to be broken loose...
Flat statements that floridation is no longer a controversial subject (when Cambridge has just thrown it out after a two year trial), that fluoride is a nutrient (cf. Maurer and Day: "The Non-essentiality of Fluorine as a Nutrient") and the reberated argumentum hominem against opponents of this police-state medicine are for the dispassionate to weigh...
...which produce the most and best protein. When the chemists learned how to grow the bugs in quantity, they filtered them out of the culture, separated them from all traces of petroleum and fed them to laboratory animals. Ihe < bugs proved to be an excellent protein concentrate, comparable in nutrient value to fish meal or soya cake. They are rich in B vitamins and lysine, the important aminoacid that is missing from protein made from grain...
...feed but there seems to be no reason why it shou d not be fed to humans too. Produced in marketable quantities, it may turn out to be a bargain. Low-grade oil sells tor slightly more than 1? per lb., and a pound of good protein has the nutrient value of 5 lbs. of lean meat...
...This indicates," Dr. Wacker pointed out, "that there is mitotic arrest and a block in both RNA and protein synthesis resulting from zinc deficiency--a condition that is not reversed when other trace metals [iron, manganese, copper, magnesium and calcium] metabolic precursors or metabolites, are added to the nutrient solution in which the organism is grown...