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Organic FarmingThe article below was written by The Ambassador College Campus in the UK. It was written in the early 1960’s, and as such, was DECADES ahead of its time. With the intervening years, we have come to a greater understanding of what is going on in the world around us. We understand now that the reason chemical agriculture was made the norm was because the huge chemical manufacturing companies wanted it. They had absolutely no concern for soil depletion and the resultant health risks posed by that and the chemical residues in almost everything we eat now. In recent years, though, the situation has gotten far worse. Agriculture now is so far removed from nature that it bears almost no resemblance to the way food should be raised. We now have new GM crops, which even the President of the United States assures the world is wholesome, but no one really knows for sure. The nightmare could come very fast though, because these new genetically modified crops could create new diseases overnight. And already, the monarch butterflies are dying off. But one of the things this is really about is control, power, and corporate greed. Monsanto Corporation owns the patents to many of these new Frankencrops, and they require farmers to pay them royalties to grow crops even from seed the farmers raise themselves! You can’t do that with natural seeds, can you? But what is really hellish is that these new modified strains are starting to infect natural crops. Farmers have found GM crops growing in their fields that they didn’t even plant, and if Monsanto finds them, they will fine the unsuspecting farmer! So the bottom line is that this whole thing is about corporate control and greed. There are simple, natural ways to grow all of the good, wholesome food that we need, while maintaining the health of the soil and of the human population. But, as is the case with the related pharmaceutical industry, these huge corporate monstrosities want to stamp out that which they cannot patent, control, and profit from. See the alternative therapies section for more on this. Below is a classic article that shows the way to health, happiness, and abundance for all. If we would only wake up and listen, that is, instead of listening to the siren song of those who would make us slaves on the corporate plantation. Destiny University hopes to pick up the baton where Ambassador College [now sadly closed] left off. Enjoy! CONQUER DISEASE -- THROUGH
AGRICULTURAL LAW! Ambassador College UK Agriculture Department Many people, looking at the state of
agriculture today realize
that serious problems beset the industry at almost every turn.
The headache of finance looms overall, but it is more a SYMPTOM
than a CAUSE in the business of farming! Man's animals on the other hand, are
plagued with internal and
external parasites in every country on earth. Many fail to conceive,
others abort and lots of them bring forth weak and diseased
offspring. Our plants suffer massive annual attacks by fungi,
insects and a host of other pests. At the same time our soils
have become lamentably deficient in fertility and available nutrients.
The end result of all these problems is
that food producers have
sought the costly help of those offering substitutes for healthy
soil, sound pasture management and good husbandry! Some will
take longer than others to finally realize that pharmaceuticals
for agriculture, artificial fertilizers, hormones,
weedicides, pesticides, fungicides and all the other 'CIDES
are nothing more than an expensive delusion! Both farmers and consumers are together
on the wrong road. Ultimately
they must both retrace the steps they have mistakenly taken
in the name of PROGRESS. Imagine the soul-searching it will take
to abandon an industry that presently feeds 70 million tons of
chemical fertilizers per year into the soils of U.S.A. -- a globe-encircling
industrial colossus that funnels double the American
per acre rate of application into European farmland and double
that again into the soils of Japan! It will take some time to wean farmers
from their dependence on
antibiotics. In Britain for example, (as far back as 1967) they
were feeding their animals 168 tons of antibiotics in a single
year! (Pharm. Journal, Nov. 29, 1969). Belfast City veterinarian, Dr. J. F.
Gracey declared at the end
of 1968 that -- "Northern Ireland had gone antibiotic mad." He
said -- "We spend six times as much on drugs as any area of comparable
size in the United Kingdom, yet Northern Ireland is losing
£15 million a year through animal disease." ("Farmer and Stockbreeder",
Nov. 19, 1969. p. 9). One might also cite the problem of leaf
diseases in grain production
and reflect on the need for drastic change in man's attitude
toward one more of his current difficulties. According to Dr. W. C. James there is
an annual £40 million loss
in yield from the British barley crop, due to leaf diseases ("New
Scientist", Dec. 11, 1969, p. 551). However men indulge in curious
forms of self-deception. The farmer could turn to a system
that will eliminate these huge and unnecessary losses. Does
he? No, instead he desperately seeks the services of those who
gear themselves for a profit-making multi-million pound fungicide
and pesticide attack on the problem. PROGRESS is then measured by deducting
the farmer's outlay to
the drug industry from the loss said to have been avoided by employing
such new-found scientific tools. Thus by subtracting one
LOSS, (the cost of fungicides etc.) from that even greater LOSS,
(the estimated annual crop damage) -- we come up with a net GAIN!!
Surely it would be more realistic to
ADD the cost of the chemical
treatments to the total estimated crop damage and show a gross
LOSS. After all, neither the initial damage from leaf diseases
nor the costly chemical treatments should have been necessary!
This of course is NOT the way man thinks today. Sick soil, plants,
animals and people have throughout history been an acceptable
economic loss. You may say that mankind continues to wage
a herculean struggle in treating the symptoms of these troubles,
but the fact that they occur is still shrugged off as inevitable.
Good
News! We however, bring you good news!
Agricultural research on the
Campuses of Ambassador College has revealed that man's worldwide
problems in food production are far from "INEVITABLE"! We
also know that they are the direct result of broken laws. Even after admitting this, most of us
still retain a little gnawing
doubt as to whether the correct way does really work. What
you probably need is some concrete proof -- some solid practical
examples of where other people have definitely been rewarded
with unquestionable success. The following quotes have been
searched out and specially selected with this very purpose in
view. They are also chosen because they cover for you most of the
major aspects of food production. Study them and see for yourself
something of the rewarding success
other people have had as they have harmonized their activities
with natural law. PLANTS
Sugar
Beet "... first let us see whether we
have grounds for believing, or
even hoping that manure or compost possesses any curative properties.
Let us, for a start, consider that job that Dr. H. C. Young
did on sugar beets in Ohio. Dr. Young is no wild-eyed fanatic.
He is on the staff of the Ohio Agriculture Experiment Station,
and, as reported in "Sugar" for June, 1944, he was called
in by the sugar growers to tell them what was the matter with
their beet fields. Dr. Young found them so infested with black
root disease that yields had dropped from 18 tons per acre to
5, and some of the land was being abandoned as unworkable. What
did he do? Did he spray the beets? Did he treat the seed with
antiseptics? Did he fumigate the soil? No, he fed the soil organic
manures. Did it work? It did. The yield of beets rose from
5 tons per acre to (in some cases) over 20 tons, and Dr. Young
reported that THE CONTROL OF BLACK-ROOT DISEASE IS NOW POSSIBLE
'with the use of ample manure or other organic matter to plough
under.'" ("Make Friends With Your Land", by L. Wickenden, p.
20). But as this author said himself, -- one
swallow doesn't make a
summer so let's pass on to another crop. Sugar
Cane Now see what the results have been in
curing outbreaks of the
dreaded Mosaic Virus. This scourge came close to destroying the
industry in Louisiana and it has been a plague wherever cane sugar
is grown! "The chief chemist of the South
African Sugar Company, Mr. G.
C. Dymond, as reported in Sir Albert Howard's "The Soil and Health",
began experimenting in 1938 on the use of compost for checking
the disease. He planted two plots, side by side: one was treated
with compost, the other was not. In each lot virus-infected
cane was planted. During the following two years, the
cane in the untreated plot showed 100% infection; in the treated
plot, 60%. In the third year infection in the treated plot
dropped to 25%, and in the fourth year to zero." This is a most significant result, but
what follows is even more
important -- "Cuttings from the cane which had recovered from
the disease were planted out in a composted lot and maintained
their immunity. A row of 100% infected cane was planted
adjacent to this plot but infection did not spread to the healthy
cane, proving that it had become immune. Dymond, in reporting
these results in 1944, wrote: "'The point to be emphasized ...
is not so much that (diseased)
cane can stage a comeback ... but that the fundamental principle
of soil fertility ... may be applied to any suitable variety
of sugar-cane. In this way only can the industry be assured
of healthy seed and healthy crops in perpetuity.'" (ibid. p.
21). SEEDS
Dr. William Albrecht from Missouri put
his finger right on the
very centre of the soil fertility problem and its effects when
he said: "That we are pushing crops to the fringes of soil fertility
for their survival is indicated by the common farmer report
when he says, as an example, 'I MUST GET SOME NEW SEED. MY OAT
CROP IS RUNNING OUT.' He is merely reporting that the regular use
of some of his own grain as seed for the next crop, while depleting
the neglected soil fertility, has demonstrated the extinction
of that species. It is showing that it can no longer survive
in that soil-climate setting. If its own seed will not be its
reproduction, shall we not see the advent of a failing physiology
because of failing soil fertility, that was formerly protection
against diseases and pests under natural survival?" ("Digest
No. 3 Natural Food Associates", p. 51). Ryegrass
Rejuvenation Friend Sykes who before his death was a
practical English farmer
writes: "A few years ago I was approached by an eminent firm
of seedsmen with the following proposition: 'One of the most valuable strains
of perennial ryegrass is
Aberystwyth S.24. ... seed for it has been grown for many years
in the north of Ireland. The growers in that region have applied
sulphate of ammonia in such heavy dressings that the seed has
altered its character considerably. Whereas they used to harvest
half a ton of seed to the acre, with a 97 per cent germination
in fourteen days, and would add to this two tons of hay
per acre, now after several years of this forcing treatment, they
have reduced the germination to about 55 per cent, and the hay
yield has fallen to as low as fifteen hundredweights to the acre.
With your organic methods of farming, we are wondering whether
it would be possible for you to regenerate this seed, and to
grow a large area, so proving the value of your theories.' "... I agreed to try this
experiment and promised to grow a hundred
acres of this ryegrass for seed. ... The first year, the crop
did not come at all well. We cut and dropped it. The second growth
was rather more pleasing, and this was heavily grazed with cattle.
Their dung and urine fell on the previously dropped crop and
made a sheet of humus-forming material. During the winter, this
sheet of humus decomposed, and in the second year we had the most
success successful crop of ryegrass that I have ever seen. the
acre and two tons of hay. ... the seed ... tested 89 per cent germination
in three days, and 98 per cent in fourteen days. This startling
change from low-germination seed was achieved within two
years, and is unmistakable evidence of the virility which an all-organic
soil can produce." ("Food, Famine and the Future", Friend
Sykes, pp. 120-124). HORSES
Stamina
and Health Fairfield Osborne writes that: "A
dramatic example of the relationship
between land health and animal health is provided by the
decline and rebuilding of the fortunes of one of the great thoroughbred
racing and breeding stables in America within the last
fifteen years. This establishment for decades had been one of
the most consistently successful in the history of the American
turf. "... Commencing with the year 1933
the fortunes of the enterprise,
as to both racing and breeding results, began to dwindle.
Each year fewer and fewer races were won despite training.
Further, and even more alarming, breeding results began to
decline, fewer mares each season came in foal, and mares began to
drop stillborn or deformed colts. So bad did the situation become
that during the entire year 1941, with some sixty brood mares
to draw from, barely a race was won and breeding results were
equally disappointing. The owner was told by various racing experts
that it was apparent that the bloodlines of his stallions and
mares had 'run out' and that there was nothing for him to do but
dispose of his horses for the best prices he could get and start
anew. "... It was found that the soil
had in fact slowly and insidiously
lost its natural fertility. ... It was observed that scarcely
an earthworm was left on the entire property. A major programme
of soil building was then undertaken. Cattle were introduced,
manure was widely used, green crops were grown and ploughed
under, and even, when the time was right, earthworms were
reintroduced. Within two years the results on the track and in
the breeding farm took a marked turn for the better. Improvement
thereafter was consistent and rapid and by 1946 the stable
was the third highest winner of races in the entire country
and the breeding results had returned to their earlier excellent
standard of mare fertility and sound colts." ("Our Plundered
Planet", F. Osborn, p. 80-81). CATTLE
Foot
and Mouth Disease, etc. Sir Albert Howard related his
experiences with cattle and their
related diseases during his many years of practical experience
in India (from 1910 to 1931): "I was naturally intensely
interested in watching the reaction
of these well-chosen and well-fed oxen to diseases like rinderpset,
septicaemia, and foot-and-mouth disease, which frequently
devastated the countryside. None of my animals were segregated;
none were inoculated; they frequently came in contact with
diseased stock. As my small farm-yard at Pusa was only separated
by a low hedge from one of the large cattle-sheds on the
Pusa estate, in which outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease often
occurred, I have several times seen my oxen rubbing noses with
foot-and-mouth cases. Nothing happened. The healthy well-fed animals
reacted to this disease exactly as suitable varieties of crops,
when properly grown, did to insect and fungus pests -- no infection
took place." ("An Agricultural Testament", Sir Albert Howard,
p. 162). "It was soon discovered in the
course of this work that the thing
that matters most in crop production is a regular supply of well-made
farm-yard manure and that the maintenance of soil fertility
is the basis of health." (ibid, p. 165). Mastitis
Newman Turner -- another practical
British farmer, writes in a
way that will raise the eyebrows of many readers! "There was a time when I followed
all the correct routines in
the anti-germ warfare. My cows, my staff, my milking parlour and
milking machine were almost continually submerged in disinfectant!
I should have thought it impossible for the most evasive
germ to penetrate the armory of my germicidal front. But cows
continued to go wrong in the udder with monotonous regularity.
I might as well have saved my time. I decided I would save
my time and stopped all the complicated procedure of germ warfare,
incidentally saving myself a considerable sum of money formerly
spent on disinfectants. The germ now had a free hand. My herd
was completely defenseless. Maybe the germs took pity on a defenseless
enemy, for though I might have expected now to find mastitis
rampant in every udder in the herd, the disease went quietly
on as before, just as though the disinfectants had never been
there at all! "I concluded that both the experts
and I had been chasing an illusion,
and I decided to experiment on a different line altogether.
After the experimenting with the application of the virulent
discharged from an infected quarter to the udder of a healthy
cow without result, I changed my attitude to the germs completely."
("Fertility Farming", Newman Turner, p. 218). HUMANS
Health
Under War Conditions. "Dr. Scharff, chief officer
of the Singapore Health Department,
reported in 1943 that, under his supervision, a group of
500 coolies were given the use of 40 acres of vegetable allotment
on which to grow their own vegetables. The preparation of
compost was undertaken on a large scale, this compost being the
only fertilizer used. He reported 'a surprising improvement in
stamina and health' not only among the coolies themselves but among
their women and children dependents; also that the health of
the group was 'outstandingly better' than, that of other groups
similarly placed but not enjoying the benefit of a diet of compost
grown food." ("Make Friends With Your Land", L. Wickenden,
p. 98). Linkage
Between Health and Soil Fertility "One authority, chairman of
the Department of Soils at the
University of Missouri, has reached the conclusion, ... that soil
fertility on an individual farm can be so depleted through failure
to return manure, crop residues and other enriching elements
as to change that farm within a single human generation from
a place of good health to one of deficiency diseases for the farm
animals and for the families that live upon it. He further observes
that the same crops, still growing after decades of farming,
may have gone over from protein-producing, mineral-supplying
sustenance to vegetation mainly of fuel and markedly
lacking in the nutrients that are required to maintain health.
The changes may occur without any diminution in the bulk of
the crops or, in other words, the tonnage output of the farm." ("Our
Plundered Planet", F. Osborn, p. 81-82). Mexico
-- A Tragic Example! Noted Austrian soil scientist A.
France-Harrar writes: "In 1952 Mexico showed more
than 40% destroyed land ("man-made
desert"). Of this soil only 72% still appears capable of
being irrigated and at the same time of being supplied with sufficient
organic matter. "... A general test for the
deterioration of soil by loss
of humus is the ripening time of maize. At the time of the conquistadors
maize ripened everywhere in the country in 3 months.
Now it takes 6-7 months. On a completely eroded tableland the
small maize grains which thrive there are not ripe in less than
11 months." ("Humus: Bodenleben und Fruchrbarkeit", Bay. Landwirtschaftsverlag,
1957). SOIL
FERTILITY All of these examples appear to have
one thing in common -- success
has been achieved through the medium of fertile soil. But what
is a fertile soil? Simply stated, it is one that is rich in humus.
Then -- what is humus? Selman A. Waksman, professor of Soil
Microbiology, Rutgers University,
is probably the world's leading authority on the subject
of HUMUS. He states that: "Humus is a product of decomposition
of plant and animal residues, through the agency of micro-organisms.
The chemical composition of humus is determined by
the nature of the residues from which it is formed, by the conditions
of its decomposition, and by the extent to which it is decomposed.
Chemically, humus consists of numerous organic complexes,
the major group of which consists of lignins and lignin
derivatives and of proteins; a minor group contains carbohydrates,
fats, organic acids, alcohols, and other carbon compounds."
("Humus", Selman A. Waksman, p. 185).
Waksman clearly and dogmatically states that: "A decrease in the
organic matter content of the soil accompanies soil deterioration
and is in itself a cause for further deterioration of
the soil, whereas an increase of the content of organic matter and
nitrogen is a symbol of soil improvement." (ibid., p. 413). "Such physical characteristics of
the soil as its structure, texture,
moisture holding capacity, and temperature, are modified by
the presence and abundance of humus. As a result of the various
... reactions between humus and the inorganic constituents,
the acidity of the soil, its colloidal condition and
its base exchange capacity nutrient availability are greatly affected."
(ibid. p, 414). Official
Blindness! These numerous examples may well raise
the question -- if the
above individuals have an understanding of at least certain aspects
of natural law, is there no such knowledge in official circles
or records? Yes there is!! And the most generous view is that
it lies buried, forgotten or lost in the agricultural archives
of recent history! Professor Barry Commoner, of Washington
University, cites the
embarrassing official example of the Sanborn Field Trials at the
Agricultural Experiment Station in Missouri, U.S.A.: "Here in 1888,
the director of the Station, J. W. Sunburn, established a series
of long-term experimental plots to study the effect of different
agricultural practices on crop yield, and on the nature of
the soil. In 1942, the Station published a remarkably revealing
account of 50 years of patient study of these plots. "Proper crop rotation and the use
of manure (organic) ... maintained
the organic nitrogen content (humus) of the soil. "In contrast, with no fertilizer
added, the organic nitrogen,
and with it soil productivity, declined drastically; "... The Sanborn Field studies
also included experiments with
chemical fertilizers ... which provided nitrogen in the form of
nitrate ... it failed to maintain the organic nitrogen content of
the soil." And over a period of 50 years this soil lost two-thirds
of its original soil organic nitrogen. Professor Commoner continues by saying
-- "To quote the 1942 report:
'The organic matter content and the physical condition of the
soil on the chemically-treated plots have declined rapidly.'" ("Soil
Association Journal", April 1968) . Haughley is another conveniently
ignored experiment. Many so-called
knowledgeable people in agriculture would be spared embarrassing
questions if it would only lie down and fade away, or
die! Sir Albert Howard was knighted for
'fathering' the modern concepts
of organic residues and their fundamental link with the health
of the biotic pyramid. But his work now appears to be officially
treated with studied indifference and relegated to the dusty
shelves of the second-hand book shop! The work of Sanborn, Haughley, Howard,
Turner, Sykes, Wickenden
and many others may be buried and pass away, but they have
each helped the researches of The Agriculture Department on the
Campuses of Ambassador College. We are learning how to re-plan
the production of health-giving food in the world tomorrow.
And if we can help you to gain further understanding in the
right management of your environment, we will be pleased to do
so.
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