I must complimentThe Western Produceron its excellent December 30 special feature issue on soils.
When I was a boy, my parents told my two brothers and myself that there were two kinds of dirt. There was clean dirt and there was dirty dirt.
I took my first soils class from John Mitchell. The dedication and enthusiasm of the man still sticks in my mind.
George Dion was another professor who I remembered. Later, I met him in Rome when he was with the Food and Agriculture Organization. He told our soils class, “Fellows, you better look after the soil. Because if you don’t, when the wind begins to blow, it is going to be pretty difficult to keep the little woman down on the farm.”
At that time, our class was predominantly male.
John S. Burton,Regina, Sask.
