Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-fed farmers and agents told Butch not to worry: the northwest would furnish wheat to feed 15,000,000 people. "This is all inspiring," yelled Butch. "For the past few weeks I've been looking at charts and diagrams and figures. If I could solidify all the stuff I've seen lately from these statisticians I'd have enough fertilizer to take care of the fields of the nation for the next ten years...
...wife Natalina and his daughter Maria by tilling his acre of land at Anticoli Corrado, a mountain village 35 miles north of Rome. Even in the remote and incredibly rich days of 1938, its produce (half of which went to the landlord) had to be carefully husbanded to feed the Pietropaolis...
...weather and the vagaries of a controlled economy. Each knew that if he did his part, and if the other farmers of the world could once again do theirs, the world would be properly fed once more-and that it would take much more than wheat to feed it properly...
...ardors and hazards of pig farming do not end in the maternity ward in April. At first sows and piglets have to be hand-fed with ground feed (chop) prepared according to a dietary formula as carefully worked out as a human baby's. At present, when the protein ingredients (chiefly soy and linseed meal) are often practically impossible to get, pig-feeding is not only an endless labor but a perpetual headache...
After the oats are in, there is time out for the farrowing. Then it is high time to plough for corn. On the Kuester farm every kernel of corn is used for feed. Of the thousands of bushels he has grown over the years, Gus claims that he has marketed not more than 150 bushels. He has sometimes had to buy more corn...