Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Originally devoted to sheep and cattle, over the years the land has been turned to farming (barley, potatoes, wheat) and later to citrus on a vast scale. The real crop began coming in only a decade or so ago, with the steady outward creep of urban Los Angeles, 35 miles to the north. As the megalopolitan sprawl pressed at its fences, Irvine's real estate value soared to well over $1 billion...
Even the most black-thumbed city slicker could hardly fail to grow a bumper harvest of marijuana. The hal lucinogenic weed - which grows wild throughout America in every kind of soil - requires no plowing, fertilizing, harrowing, mulching, weeding, spraying or watering. To raise a crop of dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven...
...case, the narcs disclosed, Fralich's crop would never have made it to market. He had planted his grass too late in the season: the first frosts would have killed it before it could have been harvested...
Glitches & Advances. Politics aside, during more than two years of flight testing, the F-lll has fallen more than a year behind schedule. Only last month, a new crop of glitches and some lingering old ones caused combat tests in Viet Nam to be put off for another two months, until December. Nonetheless, far less radical departures in aircraft design have been hobbled by similar delays in the past. In the case of the F-lll, the original blueprints have had to be modified repeatedly to accommodate new electronic gadgetry for which the plane was not designed...
Since many insects have become immune to sophisticated chemical insecticides, Williams' discovery may well provide a crucial weapon in man's interminable war with disease-carrying and crop-ruining insects. But there are problems yet to be solved. So effective are the hormones and their plant-made equivalents, that sprays or dusts containing even minute amounts will kill any insect, including those helpful to man and essential to the functions of nature. The reason that all insects are not wiped out in the Rio Negro area is that not all of them come into contact with the insecticide...