Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1159/en

of the watery-lunar element and thereby, bypassing the element of the earthy-solid, directly on the rankness of the plant — tending, in other words, in the direction of a moderate mineral fertilization. Straw bedding, by contrast, has a manifold advantage. The straw absorbs a portion of the liquid manure, mixes fully with the dung during mucking out, and on account of its bulkiness ensures aerobic conditions during storage. Add to this that the straw of the cereal is permeated and shaped by the same fructification process that forms the grain in the ear. The culm is thickened and encloses a larger volume of air in the hollow of the stalk than is the case with wild grasses. In this one can recognise the expression of a stronger inward working and astral working. Moreover, after developing its silica skin in the ripening process, it gleams and colours itself in tones of yellow, reddish through to gold. It surrounds itself with a sheath of opal. The straw is a sun-fruit and makes the cow manure all the more a sun-earth manure — "the gold of the farmer."