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Bearded Soil. Farmer Faulkner is sure, on the basis of these results, that abandonment of the moldboard plow would result in immensely richer crops-without artificial fertilizer, lime, insecticides or even cultivating. His method, says he, would ultimately conquer insects (because bugs would find the crops less tasty) and weeds (because they would be killed off as they came up; weed seeds would not be buried and stored for future trouble, as they are by the plow). To the anticipated objection by most farmers that Faulkner's "bearded" soil would be harder to handle than clean plowed land, Faulkner...
Down the first base line of the Varsity diamond, the groundkeeper is wheeling his lining barrow, but instead of dribbling lime, it sprinkles seeds which will soon sprout into lusty egg-plants. Then peek in the Stadium itself. Hundreds of stout Radclifflians, wearing yellow yellow badges labeled "Official," are milling about on what used to be the scene of historic gridiron duels. But now the turf is being torn up in long, deep-brown furrows. And the old familiar chant of "Rah-rah-rah" that formerly echoed through the Stadium of a weekend afternoon has given place...
Nursing Sick Pigs. Best help in preventing hog worms is good pasture rotated so that young pigs (most susceptible to worms) are put on parasite-free soil. Lice, which may cause restlessness and lack of appetite, can be killed by oily dips. Lime and sulfur solution controls mange. In each case, the whole pig must be dipped. Usual system is to make him swim through a dip 40 or more inches deep, duck his head somewhere en route...
Doctors said that a change in Gandhi's diet from sour lime juice to sweetened juice on the 12th day had stopped his nausea and possibly prevented his death. Gandhi himself said: "God intends me to live...
True, the activated charcoal-soda lime will stop the vapors of all war gases . . . from going through the orifice of the tin can, but it will not stop damage to the skin, eyes, lungs by the mustard-gas vapor that goes through the rubber. The fact that rubberized fabric is used in military gas masks has probably served for the foundation of the A.W.V.S. fallacy. But the gas mask is of an entirely different grade of rubber and is quite thick in comparison to rubber underwear...