Soil Toxins and Plant Growth

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 47.

Soil Toxins and Plant Growth

Through scientific research, men are coming to believe that it is not the existence of plant food in soils that makes them grow sterile, or unfertile, but that it is toxin, or plant poison, present in the soils, and that the use of manure, or fertilizers, is not so much to supply nutrients for the plants as it is to throw out of action some of the poisons. Fineness of the soil is a very important consideration also. Sour soils, it is thought, may be due to toxin substances. The investigations that are going on have certainly upset some of the old theories, but we are not given a new one yet that is satisfactory.