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Monkey performed so well at siring a new breed that now all the cattle on the ranch are descended from him. The Santa Gertrudis breed, which is now widely sought wherever there is year-round grass feeding, has one great moneymaking virtue: it is hardier and grows heavier on grass feeding than any other...
Result: the hungry mice, though smaller than the well-fed mice, were more active, hardier, developed less cancer, generally lived much longer. (None of the well-fed mice lived over a year and a half; some of the underfed lived well over two years...
...world's great fiction traditions none is hardier than the encyclopedic chronicle of French national life. Honoré de Balzac's La Comedie Humaine was a procession of some 90 stories. Then came Emile Zola's 20-volume series of novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. Now Jules Romains' Men of Good Will, a study of French history and habits between 1908 and 1933, has reached its 13th and penultimate volume...
...started by crossbreeding corn (using methods developed by earlier U.S. botanists) and launched a hybrid corn boom which has added an estimated 30% to the U.S. maize yield. By suppressing undesirable recessive characteristics in the crossed plants, hybridization produces hardier, more vigorous offspring. Crossbreeding has been extended to other plants, poultry, hogs, steers. Last week spectacular results were reported from another Wallace-sponsored experiment. Subject: cows. Object: more milk...
Fulwood soon tapped a bigger market. Canning companies, like Campbell Soup, Stokely-Van Camp, were then raising their own plants under glass in cold frames. They found that Fulwood's field-grown seedlings were hardier, could be harvested earlier and cost less ($2.50 to $3 per thousand v. $8 to $10 for cold frame plants). A tremendous market for seedlings developed (Campbell's alone buys 80,000,000 tomato plants a year) ano seedling growing sprouted into the biggest industry in Tift County. Where cotton had once been king, the new ruler was the tomato. Paul Fulwood...