Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surface. Just below is a light-colored, often almost white layer of soil from which most of the soluble minerals have been leached by the heavy rainfall. Such a tree-formed soil is favorable for trees, but when man clears the forest and plants his grasslike wheat or corn, he gets poor crops at first...
...familiar phrase, "irreplaceable topsoil." Topsoil should certainly be cherished and protected, the soil men say, but it is not irreplaceable. In 1937, a U.S. Government experiment station skinned ten inches of soil off half an acre of virgin Ohio grassland, leaving nothing but the yellow subsoil. Corn planted on an untreated strip of this poor stuff produced no crop at all. But other strips were nursed along with fertilizer and crop rotations. During the sixth season, the best strip of man-made topsoil produced 86 bushels of corn an acre, more than twice the U.S. average. Pennsylvania farmers often sell...
...Corn for Dixie. Man is master not only of the soil, but of the plants that grow in it, molding them plastically to suit human purposes. Until recently, the U.S. Southeast had never been good corn country. A few years ago the U.S. Department of Agriculture began breeding special hybrid corns to suit Southern conditions. In North Carolina, whose corn yields ran around 22 bushels an acre, the new "Dixie" hybrids, lavishly fertilized and planted thicker than ordinary corn, made 125 bushels...
Farmers heard about it, and a wave of corn enthusiasm swept over North Carolina. This fall 645 farmers reported crops of over 100 bushels an acre. Top honors went to 77-year-old J. R. Simpson of Union County, who, with his daughters Eula and Cora, raised 136.24 bushels on a single acre. He planted his hybrid seed (Dixie 17) 12-15 inches apart in the rows instead of the usual 2-3 feet. He used plenty of fertilizer, which kept the leaves brilliant green until picking time. Most stalks had two big ears instead of the usual one. Farmer...
Tortillas for 17. In Tennessee (average corn yield 25 bushels an acre), hybrid corn has produced 157.2 bushels an acre. The produce of one such bountiful acre would keep 17 corn-eating Mexican peas ants in tortillas for a year. Such results reduce to gibberish Vogt's theory of "biotic potential...