Soil Samples

About every four years, my farmer takes soil samples of each field.  He sends it in to the extension office and they can tell him the nutrients that are in it.  They sometimes have to order truckloads of lime to spread in the fields or maybe not haul as much manure on a particular field.  Knowing the contents of the soil is important so they can grow good quality feed for our cows to give us as much milk as possible.  My farmer takes a drill and walks all over the farm drilling samples of dirt from each field.  Guess who gets to drive him around....that's right .....the farmer's wife!   Over the ditches, through the mud, (getting stuck one time)  and over the rows of corn stalks.  But that's all in a day as a farmer's wife.

 Here's my farmer "out standing in his field!"

 Out of 150 acres of farmland, there are about 20 fields to sample.

Here are the field layouts.  They rotate what they grow in each field every few years.  The conservation office likes to keep track of how many fields and what are planted in each one. 

The laboratory can tell us what nutrients are in the soil but they can't find the germs of life that might be in it.  Only God is in control of that.

"And it lays there all through the winter and rots. And--and then the freeze comes and bursts that little seed open; the pulp runs out of it. And you might get a handful of that dirt and take it down to the laboratory; you couldn't take any chemicals in the world and ever find that germ of life in there. But it's there somewhere. That's right.

It's hid; you can't find it. But just let the--the sun... The sun brings forth all botany life. Now, when that sun begins to shine, that life will come forth again."
Bro. Branham 61-0308