Word: acree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then John Garner and Ross Brumfield piled into the old jalopy, headed it for the 26,000-acre Garner ranch in Webb County.
Dr. George Harrison Shull, professor of botany and genetics at Princeton University, gave hybrid corn to the world free of charge. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture pointed out last week-just for fun-that if old Dr. Shull had received a royalty of only 1? an acre for...
Hybrid seed costs about twice as much as ordinary cornseed, but yields increases of 10% to 40% per acre-increases so huge in farm eyes that one group of farm publications declared: "Hybrid corn is the most spectacular and far-reaching agricultural development of this generation. It ranks in importance...
Rotund, white-bearded Dr. Shull, who looks like Santa Claus, does not feel gypped at having received no royalties so long as he is recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he...
In the last ten years an average of $1.18 per acre per inch of snow has been spent by the University on keeping the ways clean, Johnson revealed, and a total of $9415.05 was spent on snow removal last year.