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327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Lecture I 07 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
Was it not Count Keyserlingk who helped us from the very outset with his advice and his devoted work, in the farming activities we undertook at Stuttgart under the Kommende Tag Company? His spirit, trained by his deep and intimate Union with Agriculture, was prevalent in all that we were able to do in this direction.
These undertakings were created by industrialists, business men, but they were unable to realise in all directions what lay in their original intentions, if only for the reason that the opposing forces in our time are all too numerous, preventing one from calling forth a proper understanding for such efforts.
All these things can no doubt be said. Yet therewithal you are still far from understanding the beetroot. Above all, you do not yet understand the living-together of the beetroot with the soil, with the field, the season of the year in which it ripens, and so forth.
327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Lecture II 10 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
Now for the tilling of the soil one important thing should above all be understood. I have often mentioned it among anthroposophists. It is this. We must know the conditions under which the cosmic spaces are able to pour their forces down into the earthly realm.
Such things must be recognised in the form of the plant. To understand the plant, we must recognise the form of the plant and from the colour of the flower, the extent to which the cosmic and the earthly are working there.
Such things must be penetrated once more with clear understanding. Now the plant-growth of the Earth is not all. To any given district of the Earth a specific animal life also belongs.
327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Lecture III 11 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
Here we can answer, with an idea from olden time, a point we need to understand again in our time when speaking about carbon. It is quite true, carbon occurs to-day in Nature in a broken, crumbled form, as coal or even graphite—broken and crumbled, owing to certain processes which it has undergone.
Albeit it is not so highly living there as it is in us and in the animals, nevertheless, there too it becomes living oxygen. Oxygen under the earth is not the same as oxygen above the earth. It is difficult to come to an understanding on these matters which the physicists and chemists, for—by the methods they apply—from the very outset the oxygen must always be drawn out of the earth realm; hence they can only have dead oxygen before them.
That is the fate of every science that only considers the physical. It can only understand the corpse. In reality, oxygen is the bearer of the living ether, and the living ether holds sway in it by using sulphur as its way of access.
327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Lecture IV 12 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
Should it be brought on to the fields in autumn, so as to undergo the winter experience? or should it be set aside until the spring? Answer You must remember that the cow-horn manuring is not intended as a complete Substitute for ordinary manuring.
327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Lecture V 13 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
A thing that even can act as a poison when consumed in large doses will, under other conditions, have the most beneficial effects. After all, medicines are generally poisonous.
Question: Perhaps it is a question of the underlying basis? My statement was founded on veterinary opinions. Ought we then purposely to plant yarrow and dandelion on our pasture and meadowland?
Indeed it may be presumed that in the subsoil underneath the fertile layer they would no longer provide fruitful material. You should, however, consider that the best possible condition would be provided by a layer of fertile soil as deep as you can find.
327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Lecture VI 14 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
In such a case you must sprinkle the banks with the pepper. Question: Can underground parasites, as, for instance, the cabbage root-fly, be combatted by the same means? Answer: Undoubtedly.
327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Lecture VII 15 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
than it has where the ordinary root is in it. Now we begin to understand the free. In the First place, we understand it as a strange entity whose function is to separate the plants that grow upon it—stem, blossom and fruit—from their roots, uniting them only through the Spirit, that is, through the ethereal.
We must discover what the essential relation is; only so shall we understand how to feed our animals. We shall not feed them properly unless we see the true relationship of plant and animal.
Those who came after him no longer understood it. To this day they do not understand what Goethe meant when he spoke of “give and take.” Even in relation to the breathing process—its interplay with the metabolism—Goethe speaks of “give and take.”
327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Lecture VIII 16 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
Thus, everything that penetrates into the organism must undergo a complete change. What I am saying applies even to the ordinary warmth. I will draw it diagrammatically (Diagram 23).
It is, I would say, a super-organic process. When it has gone too far, it can under certain circumstances be extremely harmful. Question: Is the Spanish whiting (sometimes used to mitigate the souring effects) harmful to animals?
Answer: This question raises very complicated issues, the understanding of which depends upon your seeing them in large connections. Let us assume, for instance, that you draw a fish out of the sea and kill it.
327. The Agriculture Course (1958): Address to the Agricultural Working Group ('The Ring-Test') 11 Jun 1924, Koberwitz
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
And if Count Keyserlingk so frequently refers to the burden I took upon myself in coming here, I for my part would answer—though not in order to call up any more discussion:– What trouble have I had? I had only to travel here, and am here under the best and most beautiful conditions. All the unpleasant talks are undertaken by others; I only have to speak every day, though I confess I stood before these lectures with a certain awe—for they enter into a new domain.
I hope it was only a kind of friendliness when Count Keyserlingk said that he did not understand me—a special kind of friendliness. For I am sure we shall soon grow together like twins—Dornach and the Circle.
In my life this will serve me far more than anything I have subsequently undertaken. Therefore, I beg you to regard me as the small peasant farmer who has conceived a real love for farming; one who remembers his small peasant farm and who thereby, perhaps, can understand what lives in the peasantry, in the farmers and yeomen of our agricultural life.
The Agriculture Course (1958): Preface

Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
One does not have to try to puzzle them out, but can simply follow them to the letter. Dr. Steiner once said, with an understanding smile, in another, very grave situation, that there were two types of people engaged in anthroposophical work: the older ones, who understood everything, but did nothing with it, and the younger ones, who understood only partially or not at all, but immediately put suggestions into practice.
He never did get round to writing, no doubt because of the heavy demands on him; this was understood and regretfully accepted. On his return to Dornach, however, there was an opportunity for discussing the general situation.
Plants exposed to light during the morning and evening hours grew strongly under the favourable influence of nitrogen activity, whereas if exposed during the noon hours, they declined and showed deficiency symptoms.

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