Between the founding of Acres U.S.A. and the death of William A. Albrecht in 1974, the editor of this volume taped about 100 hours of conversations with the great Professor. During one of the last taping sessions, Albrecht handed over some 800 papers and a few have turned up since then. This volume contains papers closely identified with the human health factor. Dr. Albrecht came to this editor’s attention during an editorial stint at Veterinary Medicine magazine. Albrecht had rare insight into the chemical equation of soils — as well as physical and biological connections. These understandings led him to pull the soil sample from which was isolated Aureomycin. In the mid-1940s this new “medicine” literally leaped into the nation’s headlines as an antibiotic. It held great promise as an instrument to beat death-dealing viruses and as an answer to gram-positive bacteria.

It was the soil of Sanborn Field that held answers in escrow, both as soil fertility and human health — and animal health also.