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Increasing acreage, of course, gives production only a one-shot lift. Indeed, U.S. cropland is being steadily nibbled away to make room for roads, factories and housing. The real key to all-out farm production is raising yields per acre-and in this the U.S. has a capability that is...
For example, in the past 15 years, increasingly potent seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, along with ever more advanced methods and machinery, have almost doubled the average corn yield to 92 bu. an acre. On some experimental farms, yields have already reached 300 bu. Soybean yields have risen by half a...
For all the diversification, Black -an Orthodox Jew who follows strict dietary rules-is still high on bananas. He considers this relative of the lily family a cheap source of both protein and calories. United Brands earlier this year opened a 9,000-acre banana plantation in the Philippines with...
THE STICKIEST of Harvard's building projects is the Kennedy Library complex, to be built on a 12-acre site now occupied by subway yards across Boylston Street from Eliot House. The development is the work of the Kennedy Corporation, which is in charge of the Kennedy Library and a...
Zucchini Preserves. The fastest-spreading countermeasure to inflation seems to be gardening. In cities, suburbs and the countryside, people are seeking out vacant plots and turning lawns into cabbage patches. There has been nothing like it since the World War II victory-garden movement. The Jack Hollons of Dallas are...