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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture I
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    • estate Schloss Koberwitz in Silesia (Germany), sends his
    • said. For you must remember, that though in many quarters there
    • course of this kind naturally makes many demands, for it will
    • are bound up with those of the widest circles of human
    • divergent from our subject that many of you will not
    • because at the present time there are too many opposing forces
    • terms. There are to-day a great many books and lectures on
    • business, books and lectures oh economics is manifest nonsense.
    • season at which it ripens, and many other important
    • clearly absurd, is regarded by many people as sense when
    • surroundings. And thus in practical life many things are
    • orders, weigh every morsel of the food they eat — so many
    • ounces of meat, so many ounces of cabbage (some people even
    • of man in this realm before there was a science of the
    • expressive. And it is quite possible for a man with sure
    • This task demands that in studying the life of plants, of
    • professors, one of them. Gustav Theodor Fechner, a man gifted
    • alone makes it possible for man to live on this planet —
    • Human life, and to a certain extent the life of animals as well
    • has become emancipated to a large extent from world-workings
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture II
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    • Anything brought in from outside, such as manure and the like,
    • matter whether cow-manure is taken from the neighbouring farm
    • manure has been introduced. The idea that the soil not only
    • manifests itself wherever the growth of Nature appears. The
    • to. you may compare with the human diaphragm. “We may put
    • will give the right idea): Above the diaphragm there are in man
    • surface with the human diaphragm we must say: The individuality
    • regards its relation to Man. In relation to animals, the
    • immediate neighbourhood of the soil and from which both man and
    • corresponds to the abdominal organs in the human body. On the
    • vital principle. If we human beings had to experience in
    • far away cosmic forces. In our epoch, this emancipation
    • formation comes to man's assistance m those districts that are
    • fortunate enough to possess it. Man can hardly find any
    • prevented from manifesting it by pushing up into flowers but
    • is present to a tremendous extent. It does not manifest itself
    • Jupiter, in the plum you are eating Saturn. If modern man were
    • into existence when mankind still possessed an ancient
    • Agriculture. What our friend Stegemann said in this connection
    • transformation of the human soul, with the declining of the
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture III
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    • activities, its most superficial manifestations. We
    • is not much greater than the knowledge we might have of a man
    • have upon plants will soon be made clear. Carbon, like so many
    • relatively permanent plant form and also the human form which
    • human body human, and not plant-like, is precisely the fact
    • we gain a mobility which as human beings we must have. In
    • fluid.” We are right in saying that the human ego
    • pulsates in the blood, and manifests itself physically in
    • and unforming of itself that the spiritual principle m man,
    • sulphur. And just as the human ego, the essential spirit of
    • man, lives in carbon, so also does the world-ego live (through
    • supplying man with the foundation for the creation of a
    • lives in the carbon might be moved about, man and the higher
    • within him, man raises himself from the merely immobile mineral
    • the human body.
    • scaffolding of carbon, more or less either relatively permanent
    • ingredients. Now as I have often pointed out, a human or
    • has the task of providing a surrounding for our human external
    • the scaffolding of carbon within which the human ego —
    • have the human process of breathing, represented in man by the
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture IV
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    • which man and other earthly creatures live can by no means be
    • gain knowledge of the whole being of man by observing his
    • very long ago prevailed in the matter of human nutrition.
    • that a man weighing from 70 to 75 kilograms required about 120
    • scientifically established. Today no man of science would give
    • actually be harmful, and that man is at his healthiest when he
    • in the man's life when albumen is administered to him but his
    • overdoses of albumen. Scientific investigations of man, for
    • moment. A normal human life lasts longer than ten years
    • particularly to the question of manuring. Now the very
    • how little they understand of the significance of manure in the
    • manure contains the nourishment for the plant.” I
    • the subject of human nutrition. Science had to correct its own
    • particularly from the roots, into the soil and in many cases,
    • fundamental understanding of a soil which is manured or
    • similarly treated, one must know that manuring consists in a
    • parasite on the living earth. And it must be so. In many parts
    • with manure. This necessity, however, arises least of all in
    • work connected with manure and manuring. The job may seem to be
    • the main thing to understand is that manuring and the like must
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture V
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    • indications given yesterday as to the treatment of manure by
    • method of improving manure. Manuring as such remains, and we
    • shall speak today of the way in which manure has to be applied
    • the living realm as appear in the form of manure should also
    • — embracing life work on in the manure was also bound to
    • the different ways of preparing manure — whether
    • from stable manure, from liquid manure or from compost —
    • and that is why the manure must be prepared in such a way as to
    • substances in the manure. Great stress is laid upon the
    • activity of the bacteria in the manure. Experiments have been
    • used as manure, the tiny living beings which appear through the
    • processes at work in the manure substance can only really be
    • which the manure substance is passing through? and therefore
    • treating manure with all manner of inorganic compounds or
    • manure by adding minerals, we vivify only the watery part of
    • in manure, either solid or liquid — indeed anything
    • worked upon and manured in the right way. These elements are
    • manured. This compensation by way of manure may, and in many
    • the earth and leave it permanently impoverished. We must see to
    • into the earth from the universe. Now we, as human beings, can
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VI
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    • germination. But Nature is not so cruel as to punish man for
    • again at the full, and, regardless of human error, work in
    • great many results are to be obtained in this way, as you will
    • the dandelion in the manner I outlined to you yesterday, you
    • persons to work in manufacturing a certain material. Now,
    • recommended. In any case, all sorts of rather inhuman methods
    • that those who proceed in such a manner are never quite happy
    • effective on a single estate and then one must rely on human
    • has thus emancipated itself from the actual Moon. In the animal
    • therefore emancipated from time conditions. There is,
    • you treat them with fire applied in an appropriate manner, then
    • in a sick human being. For actual disease is not possible
    • without the presence of an astral body. In man and animals, the
    • Indeed, this may happen in a very simple manner. Consider what
    • (horse-tail), diluting it and using it as a liquid manure on
    • equisetum arvense upon the human organism by affecting the
    • been transformed into liquid manure, and we shall realise how
    • and human life, but the whole universe. For life comes from the
    • keep his mind open to the manifest working of these
    • begin to understand Nature and many other things as
  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VII
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    • — we will disregard man for the moment — are often
    • upon the manifold insect world, which during a certain period
    • look with understanding at bird-life too. Humanity to-day is
    • can be used by man and beast. [See Lecture II. They become
    • the denser forms of the astral element. The countryman, as you
    • yesterday in connection with human Karma, a spiritual element
    • stage throughout their lives. These animals then emancipated
    • brought about in a wonderful manner the right distribution of
    • the human body the blood is directed by certain forces. And
    • wooded areas long before man took a hand. In certain matters,
    • by rote an abstract jingle of words, such as “Man
    • let us go a step further. Animals are not so foolish as human
    • like farming where Nature is the “manager,” without
    • earth and water in the same direct manner as the animal absorbs
  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Lecture VIII
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    • signifies both for man and beast. It is not merely the crude
    • human organism. If one can look into this process, the very
    • defined as it is in man. The animal has a system of nerve and
    • divided, the one from the other. But in many animals the limits
    • when we speak of animals. In man one is quite right in speaking
    • am speaking of animals, but the same is true of man — are
    • its manger, the contents of which have been measured out by
    • human “wisdom”„ Unless its diet is varied, as
    • is red from a manger will not show immediately how devoid it is
    • substance. The human brain also contains earthly substance. But
    • in both the forces are cosmic. What is the human brain for? It
    • ego-formation. In man, it goes on and on to the complete
    • which eventually manifests in the brain as earthly matter has
    • to understand the animal and human organisations. What is brain
    • the ego. in man the greatest possible quantity of intestinal
    • dung is transformed into cerebral excrement because man bears
    • animal which we can use for manuring. In animal manure, there
    • dung and human dung are completely different. Animal dung still
    • contains ego-potentiality. In manuring a plant, we bring this
    • develops below in the root through contact with the manure.
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Appendix
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    • (from the 2nd German Edition, abridged).
    • not be dispensed with. But the harmful effects upon man
    • mixed with farmyard manure. The horn meal should not be sharply
    • manure. This should be our starting point. In addition to this
    • plant manure. This is without doubt unfavourable to plant
    • growth. The only ideal fertilizer is cattle manure. Besides
    • importance certainly attaches to the personal human relation of
    • manuring and it would be good to discuss them with interested
    • hints on the problem of manuring. They contain ideas which
    • call it so. The effects may not manifest themselves in this or
    • growth of plants destined for human food, no ill results may
    • life process do not manifest themselves until the succeeding or
    • STEINER in answer to a question by Herr Stegemann.: In sowing
    • Manure heaps should be carried out to the field and remain
    • Some years before the war, when asked about the use of human
    • because the circle from man to plant and from the (manured)
    • plant back to man is too short. The way should lead from man to
    • again to man.
    • manure nor for improving the physical condition of the soil. We
    • a question concerning mineral manure (cf. page 39, 47 of this
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Contents
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    • Breathing of Man
    • Ego-potentiality in manure
    • Horse manure
    • Human dung
    • Manager, Nature as
    • Manure
    • Green manuring
    • Manuring problems
    • Meadows, manuring of
    • Horn meal as manure
    • Mineral manure
    •       in manure heap
    • Organism, human and animal
    • Sewage as manure
    • Sheep manure
    • Vitality of manure
    • Spreading of manure
    •     manure
  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Preface
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    • PREFACE TO THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION
    • SINCE RUDOLF STEINER had given so many new impulses brought
    • for instance, it was many years ago when Herr Ernst Stegemann
    • agriculture at Koberwitz Castle (Silesia, Germany).
    • manner, was a good place for such a course. It was natural to
    • Hegemann, began right from the start of the meeting to speak of
    • many a practical farmer who — through the
    • is certainly a turning point important for all human
    • never forget how he in his modest manner said to me on the
    • manufactured preparations whose application will pay in very
    • in many important points of his farming, but he will find also
    • and many primary indications given in this course need
    • already be fulfilled in several European countries? and in many
    • (German) editions Herr E. Pfeiffer for his essential help in
  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 12th June, 1924.
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    • QUESTION: In stirring the manure for large areas can one use a
    • the mixture by a mere machine. Not many people believe in this
    • prepared by hand or not. Man imparts something to the things he
    • “between what emanates from the human hand (and a very
    • great deal emanates from the human hand) and what comes out of
    • any solid particle. It can easily be sprayed. Plain cow manure
    • know, however, how many cow-horns one may have at one's
    • QUESTION: Can the cow-horn manure be distributed with sand? Has
    • manure. On the other hand, the forces in the preparations are
    • cow-manure with the help of sand.
    • be done to the manure; but it is not necessary for the
    • and permanent tendency it is to produce seed) is being
    • wanted. The. manure will not suffer through this.
    • on to be manured, or can they be buried all together in any
    • QUESTION: Can the given quantity of cow horn manure diluted
    • QUESTION: Is it immaterial which sort of manure is used,
    • wind some hair from the horse's mane around the horns. The
    • horse has no horns, but the force that resides in its mane
    • QUESTION: Can the cow-horns used for manure also be used for
    • nowadays bring a smile to the lips of many who hear it asked.
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 13th June, 1924.
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    • QUESTION: Is it advisable to roof in the manure yard in
    • ANSWER: The manure should be able to stand the normal amount of
    • the whole rainwater is good for the manure.
    • QUESTION: Should one not have roofed-in sheds for manure in
    • order not to lose the liquid manure?
    • manure. It might possibly be good to keep the rain off by
    • the rain off completely. The manure would only suffer.
    • QUESTION: Does this method of manuring stimulate the growth of
    • few days. The method of manuring I have described is favourable
    • piling up the manure in loose layers and thus causing it to
    • great many advantages. But it is relatively new, it has not
    • thing is the generation of heat in the manure, for the activity
    • thus called into play is highly beneficial to the manure. The
    • loose piling up of the manure may prove a drawback to the
    • method has not been tried out over a period of many years.
    • QUESTION: Is it not better to store the manure above ground
    • ANSWER: In principle, it is right that the manure heap should
    • be too high, because the manure must remain in the appropriate
    • relation to the forces that are under the earth. The manure
    • of any kind of manuring. I shall' deal later on with the
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  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 14th June, 1924.
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    • so that one man cannot spread destruction over the whole
    • the necessity of a moral improvement of the whole of human
    • admitted however, that many contemporary phenomena give cause
    • ahrimanic element in the earthly sphere is harmful only
    • ANSWER: The function of Anthroposophy can in many respects be
    • bladders, but how many things that are difficult are not done
    • QUESTION: It is usual in farming to give stable manure to
    • manure can it be used for cereals, or is a different
    • if sheep or pig manure is used.
    • QUESTION: What if one uses inorganic manure?
    • ANSWER: It will be found that the use of mineral manure must
    • been treated with mineral manure eventually loses its nutritive
    • indicated will make it necessary for us to manure our
    • artificial manure. If only for reasons of economy, we shall do
  • Title: Agriculture Course (1938): Discussion 16th June, 1924.
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    • QUESTION: Has liquid manure the same force of ego-organisation
    • ANSWER: Of course, liquid manure and dung should be used in
    • but does not hold good xn general for the liquid manure. For
    • manure, must work in conjunction with some astral element, and
    • the dung would have no astrality unless the liquid manure were
    • ego-force. The manure may be regarded as “grey
    • as additional to the manure.
    • here, voices are heard to say that man cannot go on
    • development of man. Man's inner life will become
    • clairvoyant perception is so often brought down to the human
    • level. For instance, a man who had never before thought about
    • of animals- and even more so of human beings, is so constructed
    • specifically human (or in the case of animals specifically
    • the service of mankind, in the service of the Universe. The
    • QUESTION: Can human faeces be used for manuring, and how should
    • achieve very little in the way of manuring and they can do more
    • harm than any other kind of manure. If, however, you want to
    • number of human beings are working on an estate, then if the
    • human manure be added to what already comes from the animals on
    • the greatest mistake to use human manure in the
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