Show V so soil il may guild build or weaken haken our bodies value of food depends on mineral fertility we are what we eat and what we eat depends on the soil that pro duces it declares dr william A albrecht university of missouri human health troubles often come from poor nutrition which weakens the body with its de tenses down the body is less able to resist the attacks of bacteria and other forces foods from some soils provide only fuel tor for energy other soils support crops that carry something extra body building materials where rainfall is high and where virgin forests once covered the land plants are barely able to put er any more than fuel foods for themselves and animals properly managed with lime fertilizers and legumes these soils can be built to put into crops these body build ing values on the more fertile soils of the hard wheat belt the former buffalo 0 W LL YOU BELIEVE enow PASTURES M AIKE A 13 G 0 P it prairies where the rainfall is less plants are able to synthesize much more than just fuel because of the mineral fertility left in the soil foods grown here contain body building bone making values neglecting to put fertility such as barnyard manure green ma aures lime and other fertilizers back into soils to balance crop re moval boval pushes crops on these soils to w ward ard fuel only crops these fuel only crops mean poorer growth and lower health values the de dining clining fertility of our soils is a de dine cline in the health of our soils of our plants and of ourselves insoluble grit aids chickens digestion some insoluble grit usually gran ite or river gravel will be eaten by hens if it is available it assists the ie gizzard in grinding grains and coarse feeds that might cause im of the digestive tract fine ground feed can be digested satis facto rily without grit being avail able oyster shell and limestone rock particles sometimes are used as grit but the digestive juices break these down rapidly and thus make an excess of calcium available grit commonly is kept before hens at all times although some producers pre fer to feed it at intervals of 10 days to two weeks rid worms in sheep with to control stomach and other roundworms of sheep treat each an teal individually with just ahead of the pasture season and keep salt mixture in a covered trough before sheep on pasture put a fence of corrugated paper about 12 inches high around the LEATHER STRAP A chick brooder to keep chicks from straying away and getting chilled move it back a little each day or so to give more room use it until chicks clucks start jumping over to save time and hard work cas brating and vaccinating pigs make a rack like the one shown put flut the pig on its back in the V shaped trough and if you have no helper use a strap to bold hold it dipping sheep should wait until after shearing cuts have healed erosion danger present in nearly every month the erosion hazard not only is with us always but also it comes at any season almost every month of the year it is so serious that soil soll losses of 10 11 tons or more to the acre in a single month are not at all uncommon highest soil loss ex penen perien ced for a single month in mis sis sippi was 62 pounds per acre the loss must be by ter r racing ground cover and conser |