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Interlude 1:Introduction to Agricola's Best Guess
Notes on The Ideal Soil Chart version 2.0 January 2014
The Ideal Soil chart evolved from the research of Dr WilliamAlbrecht and his
associates at the University of MissouriAgricultural Experiment Station in
Columbia, Missouri from the 1920s through the early1960s.
WilliamA. Albrecht (1888-1974) PhD, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of
Missouri 1938-1959. President of the Soil Science Society ofAmerica 1939.
“He was a very serious man, but very friendly and helpful, especially when it came
to helping farmers. He used to say that, when he was young, he had a job
cleaning out the offices for a medical doctor of whom he thought a tremendous
amount. It was because of that man the he went to college to study medicine. In
his pre-med years he took some plant physiology and soil courses, and his
interest began to grow. He said that he became disillusioned with medicine when
he realized that they were more interested in making money than helping people.
He also said “I realised I could help more people through soil science because of
the link to health than I could from becoming a medical doctor” Long-time
advocate of theAlbrecht method Neal Kinsey interviewed in the topic “Nutrition
Rules” by Graeme Sait, 2003, p13.
 
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