Word: alfalfaism
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...things he loved to touch; and George, a wiry, roadwise nomad whose chief job in life was looking after Lennie. The hopeless fairy tale that George (Wallace Ford) tells Lennie (Broderick Crawford) over and over about the little house on the little piece o' land, with an alfalfa patch and rabbits for Lennie to pet, where one day they will live "off the fatta the land" was more than a bedtime story. It was George's dream, and the dream of every wandering ranch hand who reaps the planting of others, collects his fifty a month, moves...
...climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen, Mr. Newman acclimated his animals to Klaxon horns, Ford motors and shouting Eskimo youngsters while still in Alaska, coaxed them from a moss to alfalfa diet...
Last week Partners Urian and Curry were definitely in the chinchilla-raising business. Startled St. Louis found in its midst five healthy chinchillas, thriving in an air-cooled garage on a diet of grain, alfalfa, raw carrots...
...Pont flies are fed milk and bread. Their eggs are hatched in a "synthetic manure" of wheat bran, alfalfa meal, yeast and malt. Codling moths, scourge of apple growers, have a room to themselves, with long rows of little green apples, each hanging from its own hook. These insects are caught by nailing corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus...
...Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes) in the Fallen irrigation district; its abundant game-deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, duck, pheasant, sage hen, quail and myriad trout-there is little for them to say except that Nevada is so undeveloped that it is one place a man can still go and pioneer. Nevada still...