Word: chernozem
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Such soil, formed by grasses, is favorable to grasses. When man plows a chernozem, his wheat or corn thrive mightily. They are grasses...
...Master of Soil. The good farmer knows what to do. He adds lime and fertilizer and grows grass or clover or alfalfa. Gradually the thin, sour forest soil turns into something like chernozem. The well-kept farms of New York State, Pennsylvania and Ohio are now far more fertile than they were when the pioneers (who so vex Vogt) first felled the forest...
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