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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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By Dr. Raymond Bernard (A.B., M.A., 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 phosphorusotash-nitrogen theory of chemical fertilization.
his false doctrine Hens…