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<div class="readableBox"><<if visited() is 1>><<set $Blog to +1>><</if>> <img src = "FrancisHole.png"> I am A.B., a scientist and zoology expert. The books listed below are intended to show the true nature of soil. Return to this page, I write new books all the time. For moment to moment thoughts, check out my blog. "One of the stimulating developments in soil biology in recent years has been the general recognition that the soil cannot be studied solely from a chemical, microbiological, botanical or zoological stand-point. The ever-changing pattern of processes going on in the soil is made up of elements from many disciplines, inextricably interwoven, which must be synthesized, not studied in isolation. Unless this is constantly borne in mind, the scientific understanding of the soil will cease to advance and will stagnate, just as many of the complex biological processes in the soil are inhibited if one essential component is missing." Praise for A.B.: <<if $BookRead is 0>> <<display "Blurb3">> <<elseif $BookRead is 1>> <<display "Blurb2">> <<elseif $BookRead is 2>> <<display "Blurb1">> <</if>> Books: <<if $BookRead is 0>> <<display "Book3">> <<elseif $BookRead is 1>> <<display "Book2">> <<elseif $BookRead is 2>> <<display "Book1">> <</if>> </div>

<div class="readableBox"> <div class="pageHead">Decomposit Rainbow (1971)</div> A.B.'s final book. [[Buy Here|Buy Here 1]] [[Read Free Here |Book 1 Cover]] </div>

<div class="readableBox"> <div class="pageHead"> Zoologic Silt (1968) </div> In this book, A.B. iterates on an idea presented in Soil Zoology (1967). Soil contains life. It lives and breathes, not through organisms and bacteria, but its own energy. [[Buy Here|Buy Here 2]] [[Read Free Here |Book 2 Cover]] </div>

<div class="readableBox"> <div class="pageHead"> Soil Zoology (1967) </div> The aim of this book is to bring together the microbiological, botanical and zoological aspects of soil biology in a way that provides information and ideas for the specialist in their own and related fields. [[Buy Here|Buy Here 3]] [[Read Free Here |Book 3 Cover]] </div>

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<div class="readableBox"> A.B. was born on August 25, 1913, in Muncie, Indiana to Quaker parents. Thier mother was Mary (Doan), their father was Allen David Hole, and they had one brother, Allen David Hole, Jr. A grew up in Richmond, Indiana, in a house on the edge of the Earlham College campus, where their father was a professor of geology from 1900 until 1940. Their mother had been a professor of English literature at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. They were the student librarian for the Morton High School symphony orchestra, and played the violin under the baton of Joseph Maddy, who later founded the National Music Camp at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. They also learned to play the piano. A.B. writes a number of books on the subject of soil zoobiology. </div>

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<div class ="Post"> May 25, 1966 Hello, along with this website, I am beginning a blog. Who's to say how often I will post here, but I might as welll begin it. </div>

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<div class ="Post"> March 3, 1967 Went out to find more soil samples today, from the place in the book. Less chatting today, but it was brisk out. Had to pull out my nice blue wind breaker. Sometimes none of us feel like talking, that's just fine. </div>

<div class="page">The aim of this book is to bring together the microbiological, botanical and zoological aspects of soil biology in a way that provides information and ideas for the specialist in his own and related fields. To achieve this, leading specialists were invited to contribute critical reviews and assessments of their particular branches of soil biology, paying particular attention to functional aspects and biotic inter-relationships whenever possible. Because soil biology covers such wide and diverse fields of study it is not surprising that there are wide differences in the amount of space devoted to the different topics and organisms dealt with in this book. I believe that this reflects the present state of research interests, for there are many research workers in some fields and few in others, and topics studied in detail in some taxonomic groups have been neglected in others. If this very unevenness induces soil biologists to develop research in hitherto neglected fields, it will be an excellent thing. The writer will find, and prove, finally, that soil is living, and deserves our respect. <div class="pageNum"> 283 </div> [[Next Page |Book 3 Pg2]] </div>

<div class="page"><<if visited() is 1>><<set $Blog to $Blog+1>><</if>> According to Mooney and Winslow (1935), carbon dioxide production in glucose-peptone broth by Salmonella pullorum occurs at a rate of 1-14 mg/ billion cells per hour during the early logarithmic growth phase. At stationary maximum population, the rate was determined as 0-08 mg. Similar data were obtained by Walker and Winslow (1932) working with Escherichia coli. They reported 0-41 to 1-85 mg C02/billion cells per hour in the late logarith- mic phase, and less than 0-02 mg at the close of the logarithmic phase. Actively multiplying bacterial cells therefore appear capable of producing many times their dry matter weight of C0 2 during 24 hours, whereas in stationary popu- lations the production of C0 2 during 24 hours is approximately the equivalent of dry cell weight. <div class="pageNum"> 296 </div> [[Next Page |Book 3 Pg3]] </div>

<div class="page">It appears reasonable and even obligatory to accept the field measurement of 1-6 lb/acre per hour for C0 2 production from soil. Insofar as production by the soil bacteria is concerned, the 1-6 lb must be several times too high, simply because the bacteria constitute only about one-fifth of the biomass in soil and therefore should be held responsible for only part of the total respira- tory activity in soil. Accordingly, it appears necessary to challenge the propo- sition that there are 2 billion cells/g of soil that are producing C0 2 at the rate of 0-004 mg/billion bacteria per hour. Although some cells may be exhibiting 20 F. E. CLARK this or some higher level of respiratory activity, the majority of them must be greatly enfeebled or resting cells, or spores, that are exhibiting an exceed- ingly low level of respiratory activity. Many of these probably would not be determined in the course of making plate count determinations of the soil population. These discoveries are astounding. The soil, with breathing, begins to speak! It does not say much, mostly jibberish, but sounds up to 30db. Measureable levels of sound. It lets out calming sounds. Those in the lab along side the writer can hear it, definitely, but refuse to admit it. The writer will show them. <div class="pageNum"> 306 </div> [[Back to front |Book 3 Cover]] </div>

<div class ="Post"> March 5, 1967 Finishing up my next book. Publishers were a bit less happy with this one, but who cares? I've got a three-book deal. Frustrated, still. Took a walk out to the field. The sky was grey, but no rain. Chilly once more, wore a hat this time. Gazed out over the windy hills and asked the dirt if it were cold. The humming got louder, but no concrete answers. </div>

<div class="readableBox"> A game by Jen Bourke, for Ty Cobb <hr> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Baltz http://higeo.ginras.ru/view-record.php?tbl=person&id=1038 A. Burgers, Soil Biology (1967) https://soundproofingguide.com/decibels-level-comparison-chart/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_D._Hole </div>

<div class ="Post"> June 25, 1967 The book is out! Some interesting response, but nothing I can't handle. Did the blurbs and the quotes just as was asked of me. My wife asks me why I'm home less. I suppose she's suspicious. I told her it was just the dirt. I took her out here once, hoped she'd hear it, that she'd understand. She looked out, told me it was beautiful but too cold for a picnic. The soil hummed, pityingly. </div>

<div class ="Post"> December, 1970 The Winter holidays are filled with writing. My final book is emerging from my fingertips. I know it is my final book because my publishers tell me so. "A, you'll never publish another book on this Earth!" Good. I tire of writing. </div>

<div class ="Post"> January, 1971 I apologize to readers of this blog for disappearing so long. I did not know what to write. I admit I never truly know what to write here. If you read this, you must understand me in some way, so I'd like you to know that I'd lost my way. I have been told to leave it be so much I'd begun to doubt myself. The soil grew quiet. But now I know it was wrong to doubt. It is beautiful. I sit in the long, frosted grass day after day, listening to the sounds. I've begun to understand it, as I hope, reader, you do as well. </div>

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<div class ="Post"> April 1971 This will be my final post. I finished my final book. I understand, now, what the soil says. If we are all to become dirt, Why fear? I will join now my only understanding compatriot. No one has ever responded to my contact page, so I do not know if anyone finds any interest in my work. I am going, now, to the field where I first found my dirt. I am going to climb into the loose, dry soil and begin my descent. I love you all. Goodbye. Thank you for reading. [[End|Credits]] </div>

<div class="page">Additionally to local concentrations of bacteria in the rhizosphere, there can occur islands or foci of microbial activity in soil apart from plant roots. Such foci vary greatly in magnitude. At one extreme is the condition that prevails when a green manure crop is plowed down. In such instance a food supply measurable in tons per acre is layered into the soil. Such layers can contain many billions of bacteria per gram of plant material, while soil but a few centimeters distant, if free of contact with the added plant parts, shows only a few millions per gram (Smith and Humfeld, 1930). On a smaller scale, foci of bacterial activity develop when individual plants or portions of them fall onto or become incorporated into the soil. Following harvest of seed cotton from a field, the writer has observed that decaying cotton carpels in 2. BACTERIA IN SOIL 25 natural microclimates at the soil surface can support bacterial populations of 20 billion/g plant material. <div class="pageNum"> 297 </div> [[Next Page |Book 2 Pg2]] </div>

<div class="page"><<if visited() is 1>><<set $Blog to $Blog+1>><</if>> The response of the dirt is astounding. No way could it make such a ruckus with so few external organisms. It, itself must be alive. The cosmopolitan nature of the bacterial flora in soil attests to widespread distribution of the organisms involved, but it is uninformative as to the effciency of the several dispersal mechanisms. The present-day distribution may have required thousands of years. Much more precise information is needed concerning the extent and rate at which bacteria can transport themselves or be transported within soil. <div class="pageNum"> 301 </div> [[Next Page |Book 2 Pg3]] </div>

<div class="page"> There is evidence that bacteria do not move freely into or through the soil water. Soil is well known for its capacity to entrap the bacteria which it receives in sewage effluents. In the course of nitrification experiments in a soil perfusion apparatus, Quastel and Scholefield (1951) observed that heavy populations of nitrifying bacteria became established on the soil particles while the perfusing liquid itself remained practically free of bacteria. The writer has observed that in a soil initially free of soybean rhizobia, uninocu- lated border or buffer rows intervening between inoculated (and nodulated) rows of soybeans remained uniformly free of nodulation throughout the growing season. This was surprising, inasmuch as at the time the soybeans were about 4 in high, the farm operator, faced with a heavy work schedule, turned in excessive heads of irrigation water and achieved a basin or flood irrigation, rather than a furrow irrigation along the rows. In the course of a single growing season, neither such flooding, nor any combination of dis- persal mechanisms, sufficed to cause movement of rhizobia between nearly contiguous rhizospheres. <div class="pageNum"> 365 </div> [[Next Page |Book 2 Cover]] </div>

<div class="page"> September 3, 1970 The dirt sings now. Sings! I demand to know why. I watch from self-imposed exile as my family bites, chews, eats. They believe me more raccoon than human now. October 6, 1970 My findings: Dirt sings louder the closer I am. I thought it to be my own perception, but it is true. It loves me, just as I love it. <div class="pageNum"> 27 </div> [[Next Page |Book 1 Pg2]] </div>

<div class="page"><<if visited() is 1>><<set $Blog to $Blog+1>><</if>> Winter arrives soon. I began a burrow this week. Sinking my toes into the coarse ground feels amazing, why would living in it not? November 1970 I am chased away time and time again by golf caddies and angry beetle-like managers. Their faces reddened with hate. They do not know what I know. Cannot hear what I hear. The dirt sings for me alone because I listen. Because I care. Because I care and caress and console. These piss poor excuses for caretakers do not know what they are doing. <div class="pageNum"> 86 </div> [[Next Page |Book 1 Pg3]] </div>

<div class="page"> December 2, 1970 My burrow is complete. It is warm here. I will live out my days here, and publish my book. <div class="pageNum"> 793 </div> [[Next Page |Book 1 Cover]] </div>

[[Soil Zoology (1967)|Book 3]]

[[Zoologic Silt (1968)|Book 2]] [[Soil Zoology (1967)|Book 3]]

[[Decomposit Rainbow (1971)|Book 1]] [[Zoologic Silt (1968)|Book 2]] [[Soil Zoology (1967)|Book 3]]

"This is [...] a book" - R.J., publisher "Good [...] soil life" - Debrah Voight, wife of A.B.

"A certainly has an [...] interesting take on science. While technically correct [...} good [...] work." - D.J., author of Bees and Trees, The New Scientific Method.

"A has changed the way I think about soil. Their books are a must read." - F.R., author of "The Dirt's Way". "A.B. is moving science forward every day with their work. Read their books!" - W.D., author of "The True Nature of Soil".