Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/914/en

Crop Rotation and Humus Household

In humus formation, the etheric body or life body of the farm organism unites with its physical-earthly organisation. The manifold forms and substance compositions of the harvest residues pass over, in the element of the earthy-solid, into a condition of the universally living — humus. Its character still bears witness to its origin. This is plainly visible in the so-called humus forms "raw humus" and "moder." Mull humus, by contrast, is a product of complete transformation. Raw humus forms in an acidic, moist-cool milieu; mull forms in the base-rich, active soil of a warm-humid climate. Raw humus and moder still show plant structures. In mull humus these have disappeared; it represents a new formation. And yet its living-substantive composition has, as it were, inscribed within it the constellation of formative forces that was proper to the organic starting material — the roots, stems, and leaves. Out of the multiplicity of growth forms and substance formations arises the "universally germinal" of the black, crumbling mull humus.