Word: alfalfaism
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There are new kinds of soybeans with a higher oil content than the old. An improved alfalfa resists wilt. Two brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved...
Arnall's record does not yet prove him a statesman. He played along for awhile with Governor Talmadge, who gave him his first appointive office. Once, in 1932, he tried to boom Oklahoma's Alfalfa Bill Murray for President. He has made a few rabble-rousing speeches...
...Half of Arizona's cantaloupes have spoiled in the fields. Ten thousand acres of costly alfalfa went to seed uncut. The State's output of long staple cotton, threefourths of the U.S. supply and used for parachute web and machine-gun belts, is threatened. Casa Grande valley farmers paid $4 a day for workers they used to get for $40 a month-and saw those farm hands go off to $1.12-an-hour jobs building camps for 10,000 relocated Japanese. Most of the Japanese are farmers from California; now they sit idly in the shade, watching...
...spiked with synthetic vitamin K, U.S. dentists might have to go out of business: tooth cavities, which afflict 95% of the U.S. population, might be prevented. So claimed Chemist Leonard Samuel Fosdick* & colleagues of Northwestern University in a preliminary report in Science last week. Vitamin K, found naturally in alfalfa, hog liver, cabbage, tomatoes and possibly in unrefined sugar, is valuable for its properties as a blood-clotter, especially in hemorrhages of newborn infants. When taken into the mouth, Dr. Fosdick discovered, vitamin K serves another function-it prevents sugars from turning into tooth-corroding acid...
...unless a farmer can prove he has arranged for storage space at the terminal. Harvesting this year's wheat will take thousands of workers whose labor is needed in other fields. Besides, much of the wheat acreage would have been far better used for crops like soybeans, flaxseed, alfalfa...