Show SCIENCE ON THE FARM the valno of science la alio af alio sull the process of vegetable growth and structural formation of plant alfo carries with it lessons of intense interest anil instruction taic organization of a arco or plant beginning with the seed and followed onward to that stage where it reproduces the acrin of lifo it sprang is no less wonderful or complex than aliat of alio physical organization of inin it alf the immutable law governing this creative process alio unchangeable result produced from certain incentive causes is one of thys wonders ut cica lion termed by bome alio llio law of nature by others the shaping of a divine purpose originating solely with a clod however that may be and wo will leave it to bo dicu cd by theologians and materialists materia lists our purpose is bul lo 10 make a few in regard to the physical synthesis of cliot life from the seed alio seed itself s to us alio primary origin of the plant to the philosopher wild boea beneath the mil face of that seed i f but a of inc there was necessarily a previous existence for that let us illustrate by taking a wheat grain here the chemist by abo wonderful forces brought under his manipulation bisor this iccil into ill physical constituents iio goes still further and reduces again into their primary elements and aro these simply a combination of elements entering into the functions of nearly all physical substances neither having separately the characteristic iu the remotest of our grain of wheat but by komu mystic force the force that lights alio endless night her brilliant galaxy of planets alie that controls rols llie mighty rush ol 01 oceans also iu its vast prescience alio llio formative process that gives to man the liny grilii of wheat wherewith to sustain that condition called life put this grain in alio earth with conditions favorable to iti fructification maintained and soon a wondrous change is seen alic inert grain gives forlai its spike lct of green the elements moil within endowed with life and it undergoes in itself most mighty changes attracting to itself other from the soil it shoots up on active living plant but let there bo a single element missing from its proper and at once a battle begins for the plant demands certain conditions for its support say aliat was missing llo puny hoyng fails to produce that lobust heibl rich iu ineada products silica alio stalk aliat should stand erect ami firm to produce its kind falls low buforo alic lightest zephyr and bids for inure su omit the acid alic farmer ii ngaio in lespa frat unproductive crops it will thus bi seen that whatever care aliu fair may give tho soil or alie seed m planted other ara demanded for tho perfect reproductive process whit relief then lias alie husbandman who 9 finding himself sees before him the prospect of poor crop aid possibly ruin herein comes alio vailuu of I 1 vo science chemistry which leaches alie constituents of plant i and as to boil here steps in and with analytical tion reaches the source of alio din ami comes to tho with proper remedies the elements that are lacking in the toll arc supplied and the cro alivo process is continued what losson is here taught alio axi forced upon farmers many acari ago aliat certain rotations in biow ing crops demanded to nestoro worn soils was an unconscious step in science a discovery of a what modern cho in a sanson the leson coaches that soils ary largely and have different adaptations that continued cropping without i compensator return will ultimately exhaust any soil ot its nutritive constituents ann lastly that science can with master liand cut alio gordian knot ol 01 mich as e and an it alio llio tiller of the soil has a fr brud ud ff aw yawn i |