Show Plowing Is Useful in Keeping Up Fertility of Old Forest Lands I In expanding upon the statement above concerning soil differences in I forest and in field Dr Albrecht has this to say about soil conditions in inthe inthe the forested Atlantic seacoast When the forest soils which the Puritans found were cleared of or their trees and cultivated they were soon abandoned as agri agricultural land by the pioneers who were willing to face the hazardous movement westward westward westward west west- ward in search of fertile land These facts have not commonly been reI at- at i f i I I ed to the low rate and arid low quantity nutrient delivery by those soils of the lime the phosphorus the nitrogen nitrogen nitrogen nitro nitro- gen and other chemical elements needed to make nourishing vegetation vegetation tion for the building of healthy animal animal animal ani ani- mal and human bodies Soils which had come comedown down to the low fertility delivery represented by the forest level of vegetation before man plowed them offer so little for animal building body-building that the plow must stir them and they must re re- re- re every possible help to encourage age rapid release of the essential mineral nutrients from the meager stock of organic matter within them Such soils will produce a wood vegetation whether vegetation whether tree or farrr lam crop unless crop unless they are plowed anc stirred to increase the rate of position within the soil of residue of plant generations gone before oi OJ oi are treated by fertility boosters ii it the form of chemical fertilizers an ano ana other manures I |