Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-20 | Page 11 | Symbol of Death Teems with Life

1 I Symbol of Death Teems With Life ife V Earth to earth symbol and ritual of death death but but in a mere teaspoonful teaspoon teaspoon- ful tul of ot earth there Is Js more life than the population of the entire United States the bacteria of ot the soil This mere pinch of earth contains from to bacteria bacteria bac bac- teria term a a. fluctuating population producing producing pro pro- a new generation every fifteen fifteen fifteen teen minutes I The famous English experiment station at some time ago undertook to take a census of the soil population and the above figures arc are the estimate It also found that the weight of these minute minute minute mi mi- nute organisms upon which the growth of ot plants and indirectly of human beings as well depends was estimated from fifty to twenty-five twenty pounds per ler acre Among the most important of ot these minute organisms are the azoto bacteria the independent ni ni- ni trogen forming bacteria We have heard much of the nitrogen form Ing bacteria that live on the roots of beans clovers peas pas and other legumes and form the nodules on the roots lOOtS These are a different type They live only on these roots They Ther are not parasitic because they assist In itt supporting the plants and are known to science as sym- sym blons or symbiotic bacteria organIsms organisms organ organ- isms that exist co-exist with another and cannot live without it We Ve give gl the soil soU to feed the bacteria particularly particular 1 the azoto bacteria The They aid in breaking breaking breaking break break- ing down organic matter such as stable manure commercial f fertilizers ers era vegetable refuse and similar substances feeding upon easily oxIdized ox ox- ox carbon When We v put fer fer- oX-I oX into the soil the az- az azoto bacteria converts it Into nitrogen for tor the plant and he Is breathing g goff off more carbonic acid gas for his l l size than a human being AccordIng According Accord Accord- Ing to the late Dr Dl Cyril Cyrll G. G Hopkins ns of ot the University of ot Illinois on one pound of ot azoto bacteria exhale 1 1127 27 pounds of carbonic acid gas f twenty-four twenty hours while a man weighing pounds and dohi doing hard manual labor exhales only pounds This carbon dioxide ab absorbed in the soil mixture dissolves food elements Into form torm suitable for plants plant Fertilizer is necessary to 1 p the soil bacteria bacteria- at work They must be fe fed II