The Truth About EVOLUTION PLAINLY TOLD
The Truth About EVOLUTION PLAINLY TOLD V, From the Soil Investigator's Viewpoint Next Week: Nature and Current Aspects of the Doctrine of Evolution By DR. WINTERTON C. CURTIS By JACOB G....
...Yet wheat fluctuates , every day, which makes it clear that supply and demand do not regulate the market but speculation in the staff of life does to roh both producer 1 and consumer I There may be some odd field that will yield a good crop, but it i' the exception, not the rule...
...It would be a dreary prospect if the workers were to abolish all forms of exploitation of man by man and yet not bring with it a progressive reduction of the hours of labor, especially in the more laborious occupations...
...LIPMAN 18: " (Dr...
...The Carbon Of an Egyptian King ' Today, like many millions of years ago, bacteria are busy creating conditions • necessary for the growth of plants and animals...
...The green sand formation of New Jersey and states furher south originated in the sea ihont 10,000,000 years ago...
...Dean ef the College ef Agriralture...
...Some of them can obtain the energy for their life processes by oxidising hydrogen gas, methane (marsh gas), carbon monoxide, sulphur, sulphuretted hydrogen, iron and oven csrbon...
...Bacteria are thus recogilted as the primary or secondary tause of extensive mineral deposits...
...Bnjfley is a good crop...
...In some way bacteria learned to establish a partnership with some kind of plants, such as clover, alfalfa, soy beans, etc...
...When they have money enough for a long vacation, let them take it...
...Mineral acids, like nitrous, nitric, sulphuric, and phospheric, are partly, if not entirely, the products of bscterial acitlvity...
...One may properly speak of the genesis and evolution of soil as one would speak of the genesis and evolution of plants and animals...
...Jersey Sand And Its Origin Soma of tha salts dissolved from he rocks utimately became the ?ource of salt deposits, such as rock salt, gypsum, potash, salts, limeitone, etc...
...He I* rraeldent of th* International Society of Soli Science snd corresponding member ef th* Swedish Royal Society of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine...
...The enormous wastes that accompany capitalism, despite its concentration and application of scientific management, will make it possible to make a marked reduction in the hours of labor...
...The only question is whether the change which must come will coma in peace and sacrifice or in revolution, struggle, snd hatred.—Annie Besant...
...In a similar way, mention may be made of deposits of iron ore, gypsum, or limestone, in the formation of which bacteria played sn important part...
...We know of sxtensive deposits of sulphur which u-itrinafn/l Milll--- .a ---- I and which today sre ussd for industrisl and agricultural purposes...
...Oats is fair, hut on account of so much red rustjthe oats shell out when culling — when the hinder reel strikes them...
...It has t« its credit more perfect flowers, fruit of higher yielding qualities and better flavor, fiber crop* of superior fiber, sugar crops with a higher content of sugar, crops resistant to plant diseases, crops suitable for dry climates and wet climates, for sour soils and sweet soils, snd, in general...
...He is a member of the National Reeetrrh Council, the American Assoclstlen for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, th* American Society of Barterlolofiete, the American Society of Agronomy, the American Academy of Science, th* Washington Academy ef Sciences, and of a number ef other American aclentlflc eocietlee...
...In the older geological ages the mantle of soil covering the rocks was not as thick as it is today...
...If they announced a heavy crop of straw there would be something to it...
...for a wide range of soil and climate conditions...
...Juat how short the hours of Isbor will be, of course, is a matter ef conjecture, but with the stabilisation of industry every progressive in vert ion and method of I saving labor time will tend to re-I due* the boars of labor la view of I that sltuaUee, It would be absurd te not take advantage of the opportunity for shorter hours and th s also give opportunity for leisure, recreation, and the acquirement of general i which is i. ¦ ¦ . I to great masses of men and women...
...We are no...
...Other bacteria convert the nitrogen of plant snd animal substances into ammonia snd nitrates...
...Their money and their products will balance...
...They thus supply material out of which the protoplasm of plant and animal colls is made...
...Going back far enough, we come to the time when the depth of soil waa not, great enough to support plants of any but very primitive forms...
...His alms mater gare him the honorary degree ef Doctor ef Science in ItM...
...A direct relation maybe traced between soils, plants and animals in the evolution of organic life...
...The primitive form of plant life gradually developed into more perfect organisms, until the mosses, ferns, eyesds gave way to flowering plants, perhaps 10,000,000 years ago st s very conservative estimate...
...paper* on tails, fertiliser*, sell bacteria and plant nutrition...
...certain that we tin-j derstand ou> correspondent, but that hours of labor can be docreased under a regime of collec-, tive mastery of production and ] distribution for the good of all is certain...
...My own wheat looked heavy and good, bu the yield is not there or any place that I have examined...
...It has been truly said that we may have in our bodies today the carbon, or tho nitrogen, which were once in tha bodies of the kings of Egypt or of livis* orgsnisms of whose origin snd history we know nothing...
...The general sentiment 'is | over half a crop of wheat Rye the same...
...I see no reason why he should not work ten or twelve hours if he chose to...
...Such forms are still found in the sea, in mineral springs, and in soils...
...In makng coke, illuminating gas, and other products from coal, a large part of the nitrogen is saved and converted nto ammonia for refrigeration and fertilizer purposes...
...Stat* University ef New Jersey, since Ills...
...Let them take care not to produce more of anything than is wanted...
...The change of rocks into soils is a slow and gradual process...
...Carbon dioxide is generated in enormous quantities through the activities of micro-organisms...
...His limit will be reached when he gets all he desires of what the workers produce...
...The coal deposits contain nitrogen which today s the source of fertiliser...
...THE student of soils is obliged to consider the materials from which they are made...
...The phosphate deposits of Centrsl Tennessee are derived form limeitone rock 60,000,000 years old at he very lowest estimate...
...This to me does not seom probable nor desirable as it would fasten the worker to his job for a long time...
...Tha Uses * Of Genetics Thus plants had to develop both as to quantity and quality in order that there might be sufficient food for the sdvancing forms of animal life...
...C. Wallace Perham, Minn...
...Jacob 0. Upman, of Batgtr* aa*l tha State University or Naw Jersey, la a specialist la the laid ef sell science...
...He ll th* author of "Bacteria In Relation to Country Lire," and of more than 100 scientific and technic...
...n other words, as geological agents >f importance...
...The st,ory of genetics, which deals with the principles of plant and animal breeding, is full of interest...
...Like plants and animals, our soils had to pass through a long period of change to support the varied forms of life on the earth...
...Be received hia bachaim's degree at Betgera in 1814, his at eater's degree at Cornell In lis*, and the degree ef Doctor of Philosophy also at Cornell In INI...
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...The material of plant and animal bodies is used over and over again, and processes of decay must go on in order that the carbon, nitrogen, sulphur phosphorus, lime, and other elements looked up in the bodies of plants and animals, may be released for the development of countless generations of living things...
...After the 'lowly bacteria and other microscopic forms of life had lived and produced extensive changes on land and in the sea, conditions became more favorable for the growth of plants...
...He has been soil chemist and bacteriolofist ef the New Jersey Agrlcultarsl Eiperlment Statione since 1*01...
...V. Organic Evolution From the Point of View of the Soil Investigator...
...Slli¦atea, phosphates, nitrstes, sulphates ind carbonates, went to supply the building stones for the bodies of marine orgsnisms...
...Man has learned to use this knowledge to improve his condition, and in following the laws laid down by the Divine Creator he has been able to fashion more perfect forme of plant snd animal life...
...WINTERTON C. CURTIS By JACOB G. LJPMAN WHO DR...
...By way of example, mention may be made of tha potash leposits of certain European countries, estimated to be 20,000,000 rears old...
...I have been able to see this for more than ten years, but articles are constantly published that show that even the leaders of Socislist thought have not conceived the idea...
...The system of today is fundamentally unjust...
...These plants, together with the bacteria, are the important factors In ' our agriculture as regards tho maintenance of a supply of nitrogen in our soils...
...1, a very unusual thing The straw is ripe, the chaff is ripe, but I the kernel is green and soft I have talked with hundreds of farmers and some from North Dakota...
...also he absorbed by Industry and make possible a further reduction...
...Director of the Stations la 1111...
...Joba Under Socialism Editor, The New Leader: Be patient while I ask, Why do Socialists tell us that working hours will be short under Socialism...
...In tha coursO of ages the by-products >f microbial activity served to dissolve enormous quantities of rock material, and this dissolved material itarted on its way to tho sea...
...In the same way, genetics has made it possible for us to improve on the types of animals of economic importance in our farming industry...
...In the primitive seas, and on rock surfaces, these limple forms of life propsred the way for the more highly organized beings...
...That large Crop Editor, The New Leader: I see a gooo many comments on the heavy crop of wheat in the Northwest...
...Cyrus Hotchkits...
...Some bacteria are able to manufacture nitrogen compounds out of tha simple nitrogen gas of the air...
...Those materials are represented by rocks and minerals, and by the remains of plants, animals, insects, bacteria, and other micro-organiisms...
...With these facts and Interpretations of organic evolution left out, the agricultural colleges and experiment stations could not render effective service to our great agricutural industry...
...Sine* 1M1 he has been e saessber of th* facalty ef Batter...
...The fact is, the heavier the straw the poorer the wheat, the red rust being so heavy that the kernel is from No...
...Then the unemployed and the part-time employed wil...
...Be I* editor-in-chief of Boll Science, sssoclste editor of th* Journal *r Ajricalturtf Research, Internationale Klttellungen fsr Bodenksnd* sad ef Annale* 8clen.ee AgronomIques He u sis* editor of the Wiley Agricultural Serlee, snd aaeeclate •alitor ef the Penney I vania Fanner...
...Among the early forms of life there were bacteria capable of developing^ in a purely mineral medium...
...rVe are now burning coal derived 'rom plants that grew at least 20,100,000 years ago...
...The expensive deposits of coal represent the remains of ancient vegetation...
...Dinwiddle, Va...
...Sana...
...Bacteria are responsible for the circulation of carbon and nitrogen in Nature...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 35
