As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
It is time to learn your PHD degree in botany. Do not be afraid my children, it is easy for it is contained in just a few paragraphs to remember on how plants grow.
"All plants in their growth require at least ten food elements.
These are: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and iron. Three other elements, sodium, chlorine, and silica, may be used by plants.
The first three named make up 90 to 98 per cent of green plants. Nitrogen comprises .2 to 1.5 per cent. All the others, totaling from 1 to 8 per cent of the plant's substance, are termed the ash constituents, since they remain in the ashes when the plant is burned.
Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen are gases which plants obtain from the air and from water in unrestricted quantities.
Nitrogen is also a gas and comprises about three-fourths of the air, but plants as a rule cannot take it in thb form direct from the air. It must be combined in the soil with other substances, preferably in a form termed a "nitrate,'' or as ammonia. It is taken up in these forms from the soil by the roots. Leguminous plants through the action of the bacteria which inhabit their roots are able to use the free nitrogen from the air, hence their value in enriching soils in this plant-food element.
It is universally recognized by the soil chemists and others that all ordinary soils contain enough of all the elements above enumerated except three to enable them to produce maximiun crops indefinitely. These exceptions are: nitrogen, which very frequently is not contained in the soil in combined form in adequate quantities, potassimn, and phosphorus; or, expressed in the more familiar terms of the fertilizer trade, nitrogen (or anmionia), potash, and phosphoric acid.
Calcium, in the form of lime, may be needed in larger quantities than it occurs, but for quite secondary effects rather than as a direct plant-food. Substantially, then, in the solution of the fertilizer problem, the peach-grower is concerned only with these three elements, nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus."
The real problem, then, is not whether this fertilizer, or that one, is good for peaches, but to determine whether nitrogen, potash (potassium), and phosphoric acid (phosphorus) are contained in the soil in sufficient abundance and in available forms for the needs of the trees.
Gould, H. P. Peach-growing. New York, The Macmillan company.
To put the finishing touches on this so it correlates to your wasted away knowledge of useless information, it is why anhydrous ammonia is used in agriculture from the petro chemical industry as a nitrogen subsitute in corn growing. Most of these fertilizers are explosive and why they appeared in witches brew bombs.
Farmers and ranchers used to clear out stock dams and ponds by placing a 50 pound drum of fertilizer into a hole dug, using a stick of dynamite as a detonator and let chemical reaction do all the digging for them.
It was in vogue in orchards for a time to crowbar in a stick or half stick of dynamite to dig holes to plant new trees to soften the earth.
This is the class of chemical salts, one of which you recognize as potassium nitrate, or salt peter, or that additive in gun powder, with charcoal carbon and sulfur, as the oxygen house of the chemical explosions. Salt peter it was said was given to soldiers to keep them from getting horny and raping the masses they invaded.
It is why in this, that wood ash was used in Siberia as a fertilizer in burning down forests. What remains in the ash are the elements of "potassium, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and iron", which are not destroyed by fire, so therefore are the "fertilizer" for plants. This group is the vital part in flower and seed production, the staff of life.
Calcium or lime, is explained not directly necessary, but of necessity in soil to sweeten it or change the PH to a base, as weeds grow in acidic soils. I have a very old Illinois Agriculture college course which taught that if one increased the PH of the soil, that weeds would not germinate, and only grains would.
What did I just tell you in Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter? No herbicides would be needed in American agriculture if simply the right PH balance was produced.
Lime is also vital in decomposing animal and plant material in the soil, so that it can be absorbed by plants.
So carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are what makes up a plant. They are also explosive or housing the oxygen explosive as in carbon. Nitrogen is either fixed in chemical nitrates, vegetable legumes or animal manures in that bacterial process, with additions from snow and rain with lightning in it........nuclear bombs produce a great deal of nitrogen fixed for plant use too.
Yes you learn and relearn so much here to associatively ground your knowledge base with connective interesting thought as real education is enjoyable.
That leaves the trace minerals or elements which are depleted from soils, as soil requires renewal which only arrives from a process of deep tap roots reaching to subsoils in cycle from trees, to noxious spurges to alfalfa legumes. Cereal grains do not reach below 1 feet in roots and it requires either deep plants on those soils, or browse animals as goats and cattle which eat tree leaves or weeds, concentrate that into manure, and then dressed back onto the land to restore the trace minerals.
Lands used to rotate naturally in prairies and forests, establishing deep and short roots, weeds to heal the land of acidity, and then fires to break the trace elements back into the soil. Weeds are not evil things. Weeds heal the land of acidity, hold it from erosion and concentrate vital nutrients.
If one reads early American literature, one finds references to hundreds of acres of sunflowers. No one has ever explained the meaning of this, but it is natural event, for what does one get with hundreds of thousands of buffalo or mustangs milling about in wet conditions or dry, in ploughing up the soil with tons of manure laying there from heavy snows or adverse weather?
One creates a huge expanse of sour earth, which grasses or trees would not grow. God's Nature then grows sunflowers which are deep rooted to hold the land, until the land will produce grasses again which is what cereal grains are.
Billy Dixon in his memoirs recalls the feast they had on lambsquarter greens, which he naturally craved on a meat and bread diet. Lambsquarter is spinach on steroids in nutrients. It is also weed which is a first growth weed like aspens in the forest, another weed devoured by animals. What Mr. Dixon had found were these large confinement lots of wildlife churning and manuring the ground and the weeds healing that ground.
I give one more example in the dandelion which you abhore in your pretty lawns. Dandelions are only there because you are inviting them in as you are telling them there is a danger in your lawn, as that grass is being cropped too short by some animal from overgrazing. Weeds start appearing with long tap roots and large leaves to shade that ground in order to try and stop the disaster you are creating by city ordinance.
If grass is kept long, weeds do not appear nor will gophers. Voles and mice will though as their signal to protect that prairie in seeking out to saddle every tree attempting to grow there.
You see the horrors of this work, but your college boy and girl professors have absolutely no understanding in the natural cause and effect, as cartel money seeks to inflict for profit and not working with nature in flora and fauna as to how to achieve the best results.
Modern agriculture is a disaster is it is mono in form. The crops do not rotate beyond cereal grains, because the farmers have rid themselves of cattle, sheep, goats and hogs, who produce the trace mineral manures to restore the crops, as much as the alfalfa and clovers being deep rooted to bring up those trade minerals from the subsoil.
Fire has disappeared which is a necessary cleansing and fertilizing agent.
I did not mean to digress in this to a complete agricultural picture, but it is only by a complete picture that you understand the natural flow in this in the purpose of it all.
Land is now farmed not by farmers, but slaves of the chemical oil companies in pesticides, herbicides, frankenfood crops and fertilizers which produces a product animals shun. It is robbing peter to pay paul and paul is dying of disease from malnutrition.
The Bible based agriculture on a 7 year cycle, with the 7th year the fallow year where what grew for grain grew and so did weeds, which were all burned off, cleansing the weeds and fertilizing the soil.
American agriculture was once a 3 year cycle of constant production of a legume from alfalfa to soybeans, to wheat, rye, oats, barley following to not deplete the soil, and the followed by corn which used nutrients heavily, all of which included heavy spreadings of manure, along with firing the vegetable matter at intervals.
This is all Lame Cherry exclusive in Agricultural matter anti matter doctrine. You now know more than every PHD in the western world in how nature conducts life. It did not require 7 years, nor did it cost you a quarter of a million dollars, enslaving you the rest of your existence to the same cartel gleaning of mankind.
"It was said that any idiot could farm, but the failed idiots in agriculture ended up in university teaching their failed science, making hordes of idiots which became the modern slave of agri business toiling upon the land sweating in the factory".
- Lame Cherry
"In time of ripening of the fruit we obtained striking results. Heavy phosphoric acid applications delayed ripening about two days and potash hastened it one day. Nitrogen either in combination or alone delayed ripening from a week to ten days. The power of nitrogen to retard ripening is much stronger than that of potash to hasten it, so that when nitrogen and potash are combined the hastening effects of potash are almost wholly overshadowed by the retarding effect of the nitrogen."
Gould, H. P. Peach-growing New York, The Macmillan company.
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