With cheerful enthusiasm Carlson explains how he doubles production yields, increases the nutritional content, and more than doubles the shelf life of food products by using the sound I was hearing. This oscillating frequency apparently opens the plants’ stomata (breathing pores), and while the pores are open the leaves are sprayed with a plant nutrient enzyme.

Carlson’s happy eyes become serious as he said, "This whole idea began on a bitter cold day in 1960 while I was serving the U.S. Army in occupying the Demilitarized Zone in Korea. I watched horrified as a mother deliberately thrust her four-year-old’s legs under the back wheel of a reversing two-ton GMC military truck. I went to hit her, but when I saw the look in her eyes. I went away weeping because using a crippled child and begging was the only was she could hope to feed her family."

Carlson had noticed that 40 percent of the farmers in that area had starved because they would not eat next year’s seed. "I went to my fox hole and spent the next few days praying and thinking, praying and searching for answers," he continued with emotion. It was then I decided to do something about the world hunger problem during my life."

Back home, enabled by the GI Bill of Rights, Carlson spent four- or five-hour days for nearly seven years at the University of Minnesota Library studying plant physiology. Enrolled in the university’s Experimental College, he was allowed to design his own curriculum in horticulture and agriculture. While researching, he stumbled across a little-known recording called "Growing Plants Successfully in the Home" written by George Milstein, a retired dental surgeon. Milstein’s innovative idea convinced recording company executives of Pip Records to amalgamate into a popular tune the pure sound frequencies used by University of Ottawa researchers that had increased their wheat yields 66 percent.