Word: cornelis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampshire hogs, waiting at row on row of troughs to be fed. In the barn. North stepped up to an instrument panel as intricate as a ship's, began pushing buttons and pulling switches. All around, the barn came to vibrant life. From one silo dropped ground corn, from another silage, from a third shelled corn...
...near Brookston (pop. 1,100), in northwest Indiana, North started in field work at the age of seven, the year after his mother died. His father bolted a box to a harrow, and North, riding in the box. drove the team. His father followed, driving another team pulling a corn planter...
BILL FARR has just installed an automated $200.000 feed mill, 100 ft. high and 60 ft. long, to prepare food for the 10,000 cattle he fattens on his feed lots near Greeley, Colo. Truckloads of corn, barley, dry beet pulp, dehydrated alfalfa, protein mix, etc. are ground and mixed into eight different types of feed to give the maximum weight gain to cattle at different age levels. In addition to antibiotics and minerals, Farr also adds tranquilizers to make the animals eat more, avoid threshing around and bruising their flesh en route to the slaughterhouse...
...Corn the Key. If any single event can be said to have touched off the farm revolution, it was the development of hybrid corn. It opened the eyes of farmers and scientists alike to the vast increase that could be made in food production. Following Mendelian genetic principles, Professor George Harrison Shull of the Carnegie Institution of Washington developed the first hybrid corn in 1908. This was more than mere crossing: by generations of inbreeding he got pure strains which when mated yielded an almost explosive yield increase given the name of "hybrid vigor." But Shull's work...
...Fair Lady, with inimitable charm, The Music Man, with glorious corn, and West Side Story, with riotous drama, add up to a memorable trio of musicals...