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Introduction
to Bread Prom
Stones
Dr. Raymond Bernard (A.B., M.N., Ph.D.)
Dr. Julius Hensel was the greatest figure in the history of agricultural
chemistry even if his powerful enemies, members of the octopus chemical
fertilizer trust, have succeeded in suppressing his memory, destroying
his books and getting his Stone Meal fertilizer off the market. But
eventually the truth comes to the fore, and its enemies are vanquished.
Julius Hensel's pioneer work in opposing the use of chemicals in agriculture,
a half a century later, found rebirth in the Organic Movement
which has swept through the world. But Hensel is more modern than the
most modern agricultural reformer, for he claimed, on the basis of theoretical
chemical considerations, and supported by practical tests, that his
Stone Meal can replace not only chemical fertilizers but all animal ones
as well.
It was the German agricultural chemist Liebig who first put forward the
phosphorus-potash-nitrogen theory of chemical fertilization. This false
doctrine Hensel bitterly attacked and in so doing, won the ire of the financial
interests behind the sale of chemical fertilizers, which used agricultural
authorities and university professors to denounce poor Hensel as a
charlatan and his Stone Meal as worthless.
Though his fight against chemical fertilizers was a losing battle and he
died as a defeated hero, it took a generation for Hensel's efforts to bear
fruit in the modern Organic Movement, which has not given its founder
the credit due him.
The fight between Liebig, advocate [of] one-sided chemical fertilization,
and Hensel, who advocated a more balanced form of plant nutrition,
including the trace minerals which Liebig completely overlooked, was a
battle between an opportunist, who sought to further the sales of chemical
fertilizers, and a true scientist, interested in humanity's welfare. Though
From Bread From Stones: A New and Rational System of Land Fertilization and Physical
Regeneration by Dr. Julius Hensel (Agricultural Chemist).
Translated from the German (1894).
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