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Soil and Yon
By L. B. Henretty
This article is about one of the most important things in your lifesoil. Yes, ordinary soil like that in your lawn or garden, sometimes erroniously referred to as dirt. A quick glance around will remind you of how extremely dependent one is upon the soil. When it is near mealtime, you do not have to be reminded of food. But food is only one of the numerous necessities that have their origin in the soil. If you work in a department store you see, wool and cotton fabrics and leather shoes all produced on the soil of somebodys farm. If you are a student in school, you sit at a desk and study books, both made from wood that once grew from the soil. The soil produced a good portion of your house, barn and even your automobile. All of us are inescapably linked with the soil. Man lives on the land, is a land animal and gets his basic needs from the land. Warm clothing and fuel to burn are necessary during cold weather. These things all come from the land. Man would soon perish if deprived of any of them. People in many walks of life feel that they do not directly work with agriculture. This is definitely a mistaken idea. Actually business and industry is nothing more than the production, transporting, processing and selling of the products of the land. If you are employed by business or industry, you probably do only one small bart in our complex system of livng from the land. If you are a bank clerk, insurance salesman, lawyer, teacher or mechanic, you do not deal directly with these products, but rather you supply services to those who do.
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