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MODERN MIRACLE MEN 
her butterfat production from 410 pounds in 1 year to 1,037 pounds. 
Results like these are of incalculable importance. 
Others besides Mr. Kincaid are following the trail Dr. N or then 
blazed. Similar experiments with milk have been made in Illinois 
and nearly every fertilizer company is beginning to urge use of the 
rare mineral elements. As an example I quote from statements of a 
subsidiary of one of the leading copper companies: 
Many States show a marked reduction in the productive capacity of the soil 
* * * in many districts amounting to a 25 to 50 percent reduction in the last 
50 years * * *. Some areas show a tenfold variation in calcium. Some 
show a sixtyfold variation in phosphorus * * *. Authorities * * * see 
soil depletion, barren livestock, increased human death rate due to heart disease, 
deformities, arthritis, increased dental caries, all due to lack of essential minerals 
in plant foods. 
“It is neither a complicated nor an expensive undertaking to restore 
our soils to balance and thereby work a real miracle in the control of 
disease,” says Dr. Northern “As a matter of fact, it’s a money¬ 
making move for the farmer, and any competent soil chemist can tell 
him how to proceed. 
“First determine by analysis the precise chemistry of any given 
soil, then correct the deficiencies by putting down enough of the miss¬ 
ing elements to restore its balance. The same care should be used as 
in prescribing for a sick patient, for proportions are oj vital importance. 
“In my early experiments I found it extremely difficult to get the 
variety of minerals needed in the form in which I wanted to use them 
but advancement in chemistry, and expecially our ever-increasing 
knowledge of colloidal chemistry, has solved that difficulty. It is now 
possible, by the use of minerals in colloidal form, to prescribe a cheap 
and effective system of soil correction which meets this vital need and 
one which fits in admirably with nature’s plans. 
“Soils seriously deficient in minerals cannot produce plant life com¬ 
petent to maintain our needs, and with the continuous cropping and 
shipping away of those concentrates, the condition becomes worse. 
“A famous nutrition authority recently said, ‘One sure way to end 
the American people’s susceptibility to infection is to supply through 
food a balanced ration or iron, copper, and other metals. An organ¬ 
ism supplied with a diet adequate to, or preferably in excess of, all 
mineral requirements may so utilize these elements as to produce 
immunity from infection quite beyond anything we are able to produce 
artificially by our present method of immunization. You can’t make 
up the deficiency by using patent medicine.’ 
“He’s absolutely right. Prevention of disease is easier, more prac¬ 
tical, and more economical than cure, but not until foods are standard¬ 
ized on a basis of what they contain instead of what they look like can 
the dietitian prescribe them with intelligence and with effect. 
“There was a time when medical therapy had no standards because 
the therapeutic elements in drugs had not been definitely determined 
on a chemical basis. Pharmaceutical houses have changed all that. 
Food chemistry, on the other hand, has depended almost entirely 
upon governmental agencies for its research, and in our real knowledge 
of values we are about where medicine was a century ago. 
“Disease preys most surely and most viciously on the undernour¬ 
ished and unfit plants, animals, and human beings alike, and when the 
importance of these obscure mineral elements is fully realized the 
