CHAPTER VII 
HOW TO PRODUCE AND GET ORGANIC MATTER INTO THE 
SOIL 
N the preceding chapters I have endeavored to 
make it clear that worn soil cannot be reclaimed, 
or the fertility of any soil cannot be maintained, 
without the liberal use of organic matter. Any system 
of farming that does not have for its corner stone the 
liberal use of organic matter is a “delusion and a 
snare,” and will lead straight to the worn-out abandoned 
soils, 
I have shown that the use of organic matter was 
Nature’s way of soil building and so it must be our way 
of soil restoration. 
The use of organic matter being of so much im- 
portance in aiding and securing complete drainage, soil 
ventilation, furnishing food for soil bacteria, and in the 
general building up of all soils, then how are we to pro- 
duce and get organic matter into the soil? 
Nature has, indeed, done her part in furnishing a 
great multitude of plants that furnish organic matter 
in abundance. Her garden seems to be full of them, 
and it is up to man to do his part and select from this 
great storehouse of wealth the plants that will serve 
him best for this purpose. 
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