Sunday, December 6, 2009

In William Albrecht’s book, Soil Fertility and Animal Health, (which I was able to download for free) he says this about corn:”Corn, another of the grasses, can have considerable concentration of nitrogen. However, the introduction of its hybrids has reduced that while the starch and fodder yields have gone up. Hybridization has been the equivalent of pushing the physiological performance by the corn plant down to make it duplicate more nearly those of sugar cane. By this manipulation we have pushed the crop’s production of protein nearly down and out for growing young animals.”

But I found a quote in John Hamaker’s book the Survival of Civilization (also a free download) that seems to contradict what the woman said Charles Walters said in Eco-Farm regarding hybrid corn being unable to take up trace minerals. Hamaker said:

“In the summer of 1977 a corn crop was grown on soil which was mineralized with glacial gravel crusher screenings. The corn was tested along with corn from the same seed grown with conventional chemical fertilizers. The mineralized corn had 57 percent more phosphorus, 90 percent more potassium, 47 percent more calcium, and 60 percent more magnesium than the chemical-grown corn. The mineral-grown corn had close to 9 percent protein, which is very good for a hybrid corn.”

Hamaker also said:

“Virtually all of the subsoil and most of the topsoil of the world have been stripped of all but a small quantity of elements. So it is not surprising that the chemical-grown corn had substantially less mineral content than the 1963 corn described in the USDA Handbook of the Nutritional Contents of Food. The mineralized corn was substantially higher in mineral content than the 1963 corn. Hence, as the elements have been used up in the soil, a poor food supply in 1963 has turned into a 100 percent junk food supply in 1978. There has been a corresponding increase in disease and medical costs. Essentially, disease means that enzyme systems are malfunctioning for lack of the elements required to make the enzymes.”