Word: agrarian
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...boys and girls from the farm who will make in tomorrow's producers. The New Republic states that "rurality has degenerated into dependency on urban life." Like the writer's other theories, this is not a face political events have demonstrated that the middle western and southern agrarian portions of the country are capable of exercising enormous power--and this is one of the less important of the farming phases. Again-less interesting perhaps, but less vital...
...scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were not downcast- after all, Iowa was a staunch Republican state and Mr. Meredith, however able, was a Democrat. As Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), Mr. Meredith was in his element. He awakened scientists to problems agrarian; he set his Department on hundreds of investigations; he made the farmers understand that the services of the Department were both free and efficient...
...told me that the Cabinet of Premier Cerný-composed mostly of bureaucrats-had been faced with serious opposition from the German and Slovak minorities ever since its formation last March. The Agrarian element of these minorities had been conciliated a few months ago by increasing the grain duties; and now Premier Cerný was about to resign, in order that a Cabinet representative of the whole nation might at last be formed...
...largely, it is touted, through the good offices of his two pro-Catholic wives, the second, luscious, youthful, blooming. Since then the governments of Mexico have been too unstable to combat the Vatican seriously, until the rise-of President Calles, backed by a resolute, anti-Catholic agrarian-laborite support of Communistic ilk. For the present the Vicar of Christ has contented himself with ordering prayers throughout Catholic Christendom for the supremacy of the Church. His Holiness knows that, though he will go some day to his eternal rest, another and another pope will rise to continue the steady pressure...
...soil potassium (as one of its salts) must be replaced in the form of a fertilizer, else only weazened crops will result. The primitive farmer manures his plot with stable gleanings and slaughter-shed offal. The Chinese peasant assiduously gathers the dried plaques of cow dung, the desert agrarian those left by the camel. The War refugee, returned to his Flanders or Vosges farm, is not insensible to the value of the bodies rotting helterskelter across his pitted acres. AH these are organic manures useful for circumscribed farms, but not for wide areas...