Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to raise a family and to settle firmly in a new place." The emphasis was on the words "firmly" and "new place," for the audience was a group of young city men who are being sent east to help turn Siberian wasteland into golden harvest...
...Republics in Washington, D.C., the title of which is "Statement of the Central Committee of CPSU and of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of the Fulfillment of the State Plan for Grain Deliveries by the Collective Farms and State Farms of the Soviet Union from the 1954 Harvest...
...Soviet Union have exceeded the state plan for grain deliveries by many millions of poods (one pood equals 36.113 pounds); for example, "the amounts of grain delivered and sold to the state are greater by 289,000,000 poods than on the same date in 1953." . . . the grain harvest in Siberia was double that of last year . . . . grain production in Altai Territory this year has grown almost four-fold...
...harvest is only half the job. Year round company foresters roam the woods to protect the crops against disease and fire, spray insecticides to kill off such enemies as the pine beetle and the spruce budworm, which can destroy masses of trees. If fire has cleaned out all mature, seed-bearing trees, the timbermen do their own planting. In six years Crown Zellerbach seeded nearly 30,000 acres of barren land, gave away more than 1,000,000 seedlings to 4-H clubs and others for planting...
...same land into pasture." Those who have tried it agree. Says one timber-wise farmer, who tree-farms 180 acres in Washington's Lewis County: "For years we struggled to clear this land for pasture and crops . . . Finally, the timber company told us to get wise and harvest timber as a crop. In the last ten years I've harvested 1,000,000 board feet of railway crossties, 800 cords of fuel wood, 1,000,000 board feet of saw logs and 500 cords of pulpwood off that land. Now my motto is 'Let your tree work...