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Dear Hugh and fellow list members,
I agree wholeheartedly with your
sentiments that there must be something else than the csg strength of the
soil.I dont know what it is but there are some patches of our high gauss
reading soils that are the most incredibly difficult to grow crops
on.
I have put out some Lakhovsky coils at strategic
places around the block and within a couple
of weeks all of a sudden there is new growth on everything,even in the middle of
a prolonged dry spell.
A Lakhovsky coil is pretty much the same as a Moody
coil except that the coil is created in the shape of the old Egyptian ankh.
First you would dowse which end of the wirre is negative. You then dowse the
neutral point and the tear drop shape coil starts at that point, with a 5mm gap
where the wire returns. Dowse up for the length above the coil, attach to a
stake with about 6" above the top of the stake as an aerial. It is put into the
ground with the negative end of the wire as the aerial.
Frank Moody's coil is I believe a variation of this
design. Frank Moody once used his coils in a worn out potato patch of 100
acres in Aberdeen [Scotland]. Within a couple of weeks there was a marked
difference and the crop turned out to be the best in living memory.
Really quite amazing considering that there were no
reagents, just lengths of wire.
I will keep you informed as to the long term
results. In the meantime I am desperately trying to put some sort of handle as
to why this works.
Sincere greetings to all from the land of the
Wizards of Oz.
James.
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Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 4:13
PM
Subject: Re: Gauss readings of soil
Dear Jose,
What I'm having trouble with Dr. Callahan is
my soil, according to his meter, tests around 140 cgs. Yet it is so fertile it
grows corn as a soil improvement crop without fertilizer. So I think something
else is going on here besides paramagnetism and cgs readings. I respect AND
like Phil Callahan very much, but I do wish I could come to an understanding
with him on this. I feel sure all is not paramagnetism, though I also feel
sure he has tapped into some of the puzzle. 15 years ago he saw my slides of
applying granite quarry dust to my fields and commented "Good old paramagnetic
rock dust."
Well, according to his meter this rock dust only tested
about 200+ cgs. Yet it gave a great response on my soils. I wish I could get
more of it, though it took a few years to integrate itself into the land here.
(The local quarry doesn't sell it any more. I might add it had a 0.721 percent
phosphorus analysis and according to Reams theory that would be pretty
desirable) Surely it was very beneficial. But interestingly it was not really
a high cgs rock dust. You figure? I don't know and I question Phil's idea that
high cgs rock dusts are all that desirable. Maybe they are. But I found low
cgs rock dust was very desirable also. Huh? What's really going
on?
Best,
Hugh
Dear List members,
If any soil would have a
Gauss reading like the ones I have
seen posted lately ( like 2,000 ;
3,500, etc...) we could sell
those soils as magnets and probably make a
fortune out of them.
Unfortunately that is not possible.
Soil Paramagnetism
is measured in micro CGS and not Gauss.
CGS stands for Centimeter, Gram
and Second. In other words is
the amount of material in Grams, that will
move a certain distance
in Centimeters over a period of time measured in
Seconds when placed
near a say 2,000 Gauss magnet. That is indeed a very
weak (subtle)
form of magnetism that cannot be permanently transmitted to
the matter.
Magnetism is
measured in
Gauss.
Paramagnetism is
measured in CGS. Since Soil Paramagnetism is so
low we use micro CGS or
CGS x 10(-6) to express its
paramagnetism.
According to Dr Callahan readings from 0 to 300 micro CGS
would mean
a poor soil and soils with readings above say 1,200 uCGS would
mean fertile soils.
This
whole story works perfectly as long as your soil doesnīt have a
fair
amount of Iron (Fe) . The theory holds true but Iron can mask the
results
because then we would be measuring "Ferromagnetism" and not
"Paramagnetism".
I have found that out when I purchased a PSCM Meter and
started to measure soils here
in Brazil like crazzy about two yeras
ago..
I have asked Dr Callahan himself how to separate the Ferromagnetism
effect from
Paramagnetism and he was not able to give me a better idea
than the one I already had
which is to attract the iron particles with a
strong magnet from a distance that will be impossible
to be overcomed by
the real Paramagnetic material and then re evaluate the iron-free
sample.
So, my advise would be : donīt take those numbers as a real
measurement of your
soil fertility because this isnīt necessarily true
once you have a fair amount of iron
( or any other ferromagnetic material
) in your soil.
Jose
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Hi
James and Barbara!
Thanks for all of your good work.....
For
those of us still wishing to learn some of the technical lingo -- could you
explain Gauss? Thanks!
Wayne
Hi Wayne
I will leave the
technical explanation to James but in the meantime if you want to do some
testing yourself here's how
1. get a sample (or a couple of different
ones) of paramagneteic rock dust of known gauss and keep for reference, I
keep mine in a normal paper envelope.
2. now you need a small (1/2"
diameter or smaller) but high quality - strong - magnet - your ordinary
fridge magnet type is not good enough - and suspend the magnet on a piece of
cotton about a foot or so long.
3. the magnet will stick to your
envelope of paramagnetic material and by moving the cotton away so that you
have just enough tension on the cotton to equal the weight of the magnet you
find the magnet comes away from the sample at a certain angle depending on
the paramagnetic value or strength of the material tested. The reverse of
this of course is that a diamagnetic material (lime for instance) should
repel the magnet
Its a fun thing - but a good enough system to tell
if a rock source is worthy of serious testing - good enough that I was not
all that surprised by the reading we got on James's soil and a 1200 reading
is regarded as real good for soil DO NOT GET THIS LITTLE MAGNET ANYWHERE
NEAR YOUR HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES OR YOU WILL NUKE THEM
Have
fun
Lloyd
Charles
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