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the battle against insects and blights—and will also give the human 
system what ijb requires.” 
“Good heavens! Do you realize what that means to agriculture?” 
“Perfectly. Enormous savings. Better crops. Lowered living 
costs to the rest of us. But I'm not so much interested in agriculture 
as in health.” 
“It sounds beautifully theoretical and utterly impractical to me,” 
I told the doctor, whereupon he gave me some of his case records. 
For instance, in an orange grove infested with scale, when he 
restored the mineral balance to part of the soil, the trees growing in 
that part became clean while the rest remained diseased. By the 
same means he had grown healthy rosebushes between rows that 
were riddled by insects. > , 
He had grown tomato and cucumber plants, both healthy and 
diseased, where the vines intertwined. The bugs ate up the diseased 
and refused to touch the healthy plants! He showed me interesting 
analyses of citrus fruit, the chemistry and the food value of which 
accurately reflected the soil treatment the trees had received.» 
There is no space here to go fully into Dr. Northen’s work but it- 
is of such importance as to rank with that of Burbank, the plant 
wizard, and with that of our famous physiologists and nutritional 
experts. 
“Healthy plants mean healthy people”, said he. “We can’t raise 
a strong race on a weak soil. Why don’t you try mending the defi¬ 
ciencies on your farm and growing more minerals into your crops?” 
I did try and I succeeded. I was planting a large acreage of 
celery and under Dr. Nor then’s direction I fed minerals into certain 
blocks of the land in varying amounts. When the plants from this 
soil were mature I had them analyzed, along with celery from other 
parts of the State. It was the most careful and comprehensive 
study of the kind ever made, and it included over 250 separate 
chemical determinations. I was amazed to learn that my celery 
had more than twice the mineral content of the best grown elsewhere. 
Furthermore, it kept much better, with and without refrigeration, 
proving that the cell structure was sounder. 
In 1927, Mr. W. W. Kincaid, a “gentleman farmer” of Niagara 
Falls, heard an address by Dr. Northen and was so impressed that 
he began extensive experiments in the mineral feeding of plants and 
animals. The results he has accomplished are conspicuous. He set 
himself the task of increasing the iodine in the milk from his dairy 
herd. He has succeeded in adding both iodine and iron so liberally 
that one glass of his milk contains all of these minerals that an adult 
man requires for a day. 
Is this significant? Listen to these incredible figures taken from 
a bulletin of the South Carolina Food Research Commission: “In 
many sections three out of jive persons have goiter and a recent esti¬ 
mate states that 30 million people in the United States suffer from it.” 
Foods rich in iodine are of the greatest importance to these 
sufferers. 
Mr. Kincaid took a brown Swiss heifer calf which was dropped in 
the stockyards, and by raising her on mineralized pasturage and a 
properly balanced diet made her the third all-time champion of her 
breed! In one season she gave 21,924 pounds of milk. He raised 
