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These useful germs, the only controllable source of agricultural nitrogen besides chemicals, are found in most good farm soils. They live in nodules on the roots of leguminous plants (peas, beans, alfalfa, clover), contribute twice as much nitrogen (33% of the return) to the soil as manures and chemical fertilizers together. But their natural activity can be artificially increased if more bacteria are mixed with legume seed and planted with it. This process is called soil inoculation. Farmers buy the inoculating bacteria in cans of moist humus or bottles of sugary jelly. Enough bacteria for an acre cost from...
Fight. That evening Jesse Jones went to a gala party of Washington's hail-fellow Alfalfa Club, but his heart was not in the fun. His Texas temper, tender from years of being left alone, still twitched and writhed. He bumped smack into the Washington Post's publisher, trim, high-domed Eugene Meyer...
Perennial, hay-whiskered, quid-chompin William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 72, onetime (1932-35) Governor of Oklahoma, announced himself a candidate for Senator, said he would make two or three speeches a day "if I receive donations for campaign expenses sufficient to hire a driver to carry me from place to place...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...
...more than 2,000,000 sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...