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...bringing water from the Yarkon-Negev pipeline to irrigate the first 2,500 acres of citrus-growing land in the Deir el Balah sector. In nearly every village, Israeli experts are handing out new strains of grain, instructing farmers in how to fertilize their soil and improve their scrawny breed of cattle...
...senses about him. Its quality is indicated in passages as stern and unsentimental as a death sentence: "We dressed our wounds with grease of a fat Indian we had killed, for we had no oil, and had a good supper on some of the dogs they breed to eat. The houses were deserted and the food had been carried off ... but during the night [the dogs] returned to their houses and we snatched them with relish...
...book's portrait of a marine in the making suggests that Author Russ subscribes to the cultish concept of the Corps as a breed of supersoldiers. Once in a while, the swagger of transparent egoism royally fouls up Author Russ's prose: "I'm also not going to think too hard about why I volunteer for everything. And I'm not going to think too. I'm not going to think. I'm not going to. I'm not going...
...Texas and the Gulf Coast. Dr. Urquhart points out that several generations of Monarchs live and die each summer in northern regions, feeding principally on milkweed. Then the generation that is adult when cold weather approaches flies south to spend the winter. Since Monarchs do not breed in the south, the same butterflies move north again in spring...
...little barrel, with a cross stick and the vessel half full of red clay; and as they wax big, they will fall into that troubled clay and so scour them that they will be ready at all times." On the same subject, Walton says: "You may breed and keep gentles thus: take a piece of beast's liver, and with a cross stick hang it in some corner over a pot or barrel half full of dry clay; and as the gentles grow big, they will fall into the barrel, and scour themselves, and be always ready...