43 SOIL 



FERTILITY 



upon it, thus providing hximus; and also by the 

 action of heat and cold. Some of this land, 

 overgrown with briers and brush, has been 

 cleared and found to be better and stronger 

 than ever before. Much of the soil is sour, but 

 that is easily remedied, and wherever a patch is 

 burned over, the grass works in weU. On some 

 of these abandoned farms there is an excellent 

 opportunity to combine intensive culture on the 

 lowlands with orcharding on the hills, for the 

 fertility is still there. If man could destroy 

 this quahty, that chngs to all soil, he would have 

 spoiled it centuries ago, and the race would have 

 starved. But we are a long time learning how 

 best to use it. 



Robert S. Seeds, of Birmingham, Pa., thinks 

 he has solved the secret of unlocking that soil 

 fertiUty, and he offers the astounding results 

 of his operations on an abandoned farm, as proof 

 of his claims. He not only raises enormous 

 crops, but he sells his soil by the bushel, to his 

 less enlightened neighbors to inoculate their 

 farms. He tells the story of his experiments in 

 a lecture called " How God made the Soil Fer- 

 tile," which is published in pamphlet form and 

 sells for 25 cents. 



He says "The Lord made all the acres of 

 the land fertile, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 



