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However, I will try to answer Mr. Judkins’ statements as best I, a poor “misguided, emotional” creature, can. First he says that “organic fertilizers such as manure and sewage sludge have relatively low analyses and are not available in sufficient quantities to maintain crop yields and feed our present population.” What this statement leaves out is that despite their relatively low analyses, organic matter when applied to the soil does something that chemical fertilizers cannot do. They activate biological processes, including that of worms, which work over a long period of time to gradually increase the fertility of the soil. Thus any organic matter that is applied will improve the soil over a period of years, whereas the quick shot-in-the-arm method of chemical fertilization only gives a boost to the current crop, requiring ever heavier and heavier applications year after year, eventually depleting the soil unless organic matter is added. As to the unavailability and expense of manure and sewage sludge, this is partly due to our whole system of waste disposal, which has resulted in dangerous pollution of
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