• DOI:10.1038/137363b0
• Corpus ID: 4097403

Manufacture of Humus by the Indore Process

@article{Howard1936ManufactureOH,
  title={Manufacture of Humus by the Indore Process},
  author={Albert Sir Howard},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1936},
  volume={137},
  pages={363-363}
}

• A. Howard
• Published 1 February 1936
• Geography
• Nature

ON page 286 of the issue of NATURE of Feb. 15, in an article under the above title reviewing a recent lecture which was printed in full in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (Nov. 22, 1935), several sweeping statements relating to quality in plant and animal products and to immunity to disease are attributed to me. I made none of these statements. I never used the word immunity. The last section of my lecture dealt with the urgent need for the study of the factors on which quality and resistance to disease depend. My agricultural experience of nearly forty years in four continents has convinced me that quality in plant and animal products, as well as disease resistance in crops and live stock, are the natural reward of properly nourished protoplasm, and that one of the factors on which quality and disease resistance depend is an adequate supply of humus, prepared from vegetable and animal residues, in the soil. There are, of course, many other factors involved, such as the variety or breed, correct cultivation and management, the maintenance of the right condition of the soil, proper feeding, and suitable methods of plant and animal hygiene. This was the view set out in my lecture, and no other.