Word: compostion
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...same problems that we have in America . . . lack of good seed, lack of sufficient credit, poor land, diseases, insects, drought and pests." Holmes did not attempt to mechanize Etawah, but showed the Indian farmers how to use their primitive implements to better effect. He persuaded them to make compost of village waste, thus indirectly imposing sanitation where none had existed. He taught them how to drain their fields, how to inoculate livestock...
...front of the lead tank lay the body of a Red soldier who had been caught in the burst of a white phosphorus shell. The corpse was still burning as the tank's right tread passed over it, extinguishing the flame and grinding the body into a grisly compost of flesh and cinders...
Another agricultural cult popular with city gardeners is "organic farming." Organic matter is an important component of soils, says Dr. Kellogg, "but the advocates of the organic matter doctrine go very far. They insist that ... the usual chemical fertilizers are downright poisonous to soils; that the liberal use of compost gives special qualities to plants-they will be free of insects and diseases; and that animals, or even people, will be ever so much more healthy by eating plants grown 'the organic way.' " Most of this is silly, says Dr. Kellogg politely. Organic compost is no cureall...
That winter, the Rose really bloomed. His name became as current in Broadway beaneries as stale bagels. To keep up the chatter, Billy hired Pressagent Maney. In the next seven years, Maney forced the growth of the real Rose with a rich and soggy compost of legends, half-truths and downright fiction. But Maney also spread Billy's fame as a "Bantam Barnum," "Mighty Midget" and "Basement Belasco...
...Experiment. George Marshall had just donned the mufti of retirement when the call came from Washington for one more great task. One day last November he was at his Leesburg (Va.) farm, where he takes a countryman's joy in pruning trees, growing sweet corn and keeping compost pits. President Truman, troubled and hard-pressed by the explosive resignation of Ambassador Pat Hurley, was on the wire. Would the General postpone his well-earned rest to do an emergency job in China? With a sigh, the General looked at his half-unpacked bags. Ten days later...