welcome to fundamentals of soil science agrn 278
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Welcome to Fundamentals of Soil Science
AGRN 278
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Exploring the history of soil
science
https://www.soils.org/smithsonian/
The most visited natural history museum in the world (> 6 million
visitors annually) began telling the story of soil in July 2008.
Has anyone ever been to this museum ?
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http://forces.si.edu/soils/index.html
Check it out
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Have you been to this museum?
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Coming to your neighborhood soon…
50,000 people during first 2 weeks of the exhibit
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Ancient Egyptian art depicts tillage, irrigation and other soil management practices
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Ancient Chinese manuscripts discuss 90 different types of soil !
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In ~ 400 BC, Greek philosopher Xenophonwrote: “to be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of the soil”
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What kind of plant is this ?
Ancient agriculturalists all around the world used legume plants to improve soil productivity
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Bali, IndonesiaMachu Pichu, Peru
Dragon's Backbone, China Central Himalayas, India
Many ancient cultures used terracing
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Overgrazing
Salinization
Gully erosion
Many ancient cultures caused severe soil degradation
Where is the soil ?
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"We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot."
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452-1519)
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Jethro Tull, 1731
Have you ever heard of Jethro Tull?
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Jethro Tull’s 3 row grain drill
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Rainfall intensity map (highest rate expected in a 10 yr period)
http://www.taunton.com/finehomebuilding/pages/h00046.asp
Average rainfall intensity in the US is much higher than in Europe !
Intense thunderstorms are common during
summer months in the mid-west and eastern
US
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Justus von Liebig discovered, through the analysis of hundreds of
samples of plant ash, that plants contain elements
such as sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphorus.
He concluded that the minerals contained in plants
must come from the soil and that without fertilization, the mineral content of soils could become exhausted,
rendering the land unproductive for agricultural
purposes. Justus von Liebig (1803 -1873)
Law of the
Minimum
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http://nolimits.nmw.ac.uk/IEN/rotham.jpg
Rothamsted Experiment
Station
Lawes and Gilbert founded the first agricultural experiment station in 1843
Sir John Lawes Sir Henry Gilbert
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Archive started in 1843
- currently contains over 200,000 bottles of hay, grain and soil
Why do they keep all these old samples ?
Old samples provide answers to new questions !
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Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois
established in 1876
http://agronomyday.cropsci.uiuc.edu/2001/morrow-plots/
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Morrow plots today – 3 of the 10 original plots remain
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Learning from the Morrow Plots
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Darwin’s last writings were about earthworms !
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VV Dokuchaev (1846-1903)
Dokuchaev introduced the idea that geographic variation in soil could be explained in relation not only to geological factors, but also to climatic
and topographic factors, and the time available for soil formation.
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EW Hilgard (1833-1916)
Eugene Woldemar Hilgard was born in Germany but his family settled in Belleville, IL in 1835 when he was 2. He returned to Europe in the late 1840s to
study chemistry. After returning to the US, he worked as a State Geologist , chemist in charge of the Smithsonian Institute’s lab and a professor of Mineralogy, Geology, Zoology and Botany at the U of Michigan before becoming a professor of
Agricultural Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of California Agricultural Experiment Stations. In 1892, he wrote a report on the
Relations of Climate to Soils, that was translated into several European languages and resulted in him receiving the Liebig medal for important advances in
agricultural science. He is considered the father of soil science in the US.
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Milton Whitney 1901. Field operations of the Division of Soils. Washington, DC, US Department of Agriculture. 24 folding maps of various sizes to accompany the written report and housed in a chemise and slipcase.
Whitney believed that the fertility of
Midwest soils could not be exhausted !
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Cyril Hopkins (right), head of the U of Illinois Department of Agronomy, and James H.Pettit (left), assistant in Soil Analysis at the Ag Experiment Station, take a soil sample from the Morrow PlotsCyril Hopkins (right), head of the U of Illinois Department of Agronomy, and James H.Pettit (left), assistant in Soil Analysis at the Ag Experiment Station, take a soil sample from the Morrow Plots
" ... it is not the land itself that constitutes the farmer's wealth, but it is in the constituents of the soil, which serve for the nutrition of plants, that this wealth truly consists."
“The farmer should be as familiar with the names of the ten essential elements of plant food as he is with the names of his ten nearest neighbors”
Cyril Hopkins of the U of Illinois disputed Whitney’s views on soil fertility.
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Franklin Hiram King(1848-1911)
“ We desired to learn how it is possible, after twenty and perhaps thirty or even forty centuries, for their soils to be made to produce sufficiently for the maintenance of such dense populations.. “
Farmers of Forty Centuries, 1911
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The Dust Bowl – 1930s
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Hugh Hammond Bennett(1881-1960)
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Hans Jenny(1899- 1992)
Mendocino Staircase
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You are the future of soil science !