Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's research studies in hybrid forest trees and plant hormones will receive new impetus today with the appointment of Kenneth V. Thimann as Director of the Biological Laboratories...
Henry Wallace came from Iowa, where he was the editor of Wallace's Farmer, the journal founded by his Republican grandfather. He was friend and spokesman of the men of the soil, the exponent of scientific farming. He was a dreamer, and a scientist who developed a hybrid corn. Franklin Roosevelt made him his Secretary of Agriculture and he went to Washington -a shy, humble man with a cowlick, who once put himself on an exclusive diet of soybeans just to prove a point. He proved that soybeans are not enough...
...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...
Seven years ago the Department of Agriculture's Beltsville, Md. Research Center, at Wallace's suggestion, began crossbreeding Holsteins, Jerseys, Red Danes and Guernseys. Using only high-grade stock, continuously enriched by new genes from well-pedigreed sires, they produced 32 two-breed hybrid cows which averaged 12,842 pounds of milk and 592 pounds of butterfat a year, well above their mothers' production, and five three-breed crosses which did even better: 14,837 pounds of milk and 645 pounds of butterfat. (U.S. average for good non-hybrids: 8,500 pounds of milk; 350 pounds...
Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...