Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1693/en

1. The preparations impress themselves upon the decomposing organic masses of the compost and manure heaps — each in the specific mode of working of its radiations, and all of them together as a whole. They convey to the more or less irregularly proliferating breakdown an overarching, organising principle. This directs the complex processes of substance-breakdown and substance-buildup into the right channels, and helps the compost or manure heap to close itself off into an organism, unfolding a life of its own. Experience teaches that the decomposition processes proceed more harmoniously. This can be established above all from the comparatively rapid transformation of a caustic into a mild smell. Experimental comparative investigations confirm the settling of the physiological and biological sequences — temperature, sorption capacity, earthworm population, for instance — into a condition of healthy equilibrium.