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Darkness closed over the valley. The sky cleared after a thunderstorm. The air was fresh and sweet with the smell of clover. There was hardly a sound except the distant thunder and the most distant echo of a gun. The cattle and horses and sheep had gone and the valley seemed empty of all life. It was five minutes to eight...
...denied that the War Department needed a building like the cobweb-shaped Pentagon. Washingtonians could even explain its intricate network of clover leaves and curlicues that wound and curved for some 28 miles about its five-story sides, its network of approaches that eliminate grade crossings. These had been planned and begun before rubber and gasoline shortages were real. But no one attempted to explain the $21,000,000 these roads and bridges would cost...
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...
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...
...Arkies and Okies-which haven't appeared. Sugar-beet farmers need their help now: they have more than 1,000,000 acres of beets to be blocked and thinned. Other farmers are waiting, too. After beets, in rapid succession the Okies are needed to cut hay and clover, plant soybeans, start harvesting oats, wheat and barley. But the migrants have disappeared like the Egyptians in the Red Sea. The farmers don't know what's become of their wandering field hands. Perhaps they have no tires or gasoline. Maybe they've found better jobs in defense...