Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1613/en

or in Rudolf Steiner's words: that the "juice of the valerian blossom" stimulates the manure "to behave in the right way toward what one calls the phosphorus substance." This stimulation is necessary wherever organic materials are rotting, and this is the case with all manure preparation. In the autolytic breakdown and microbial decomposition of the accumulating plant and animal residues, the compositional order which the phosphorus substance had served disintegrates. The resulting chaos of substances stripped of their bearership now tends toward these substances falling back out of the living into the state of the inorganic. Nature itself intercepts this death-process to a certain degree through the formation of stable humus forms. This process takes place in the moist-watery and is governed above all by the moon forces. In the compact massing of organic material in the manure and compost heap, as well as in the liquid manure and slurry storage, it requires the steering measures by the hand of the human being named above.