Word: lovegrass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each of the pea-sized pellets contains in a clay matrix a few husked germs of Lehmann's Lovegrass (a hardy, dry-weather forage crop), a dash of fertilizer and a pinch of insect-&-rodent repellent. Scattered from a "centrifugal planter" (a rimless wheel with spokes of finch pipe), they will seed a swath about 1,000 ft. wide, at the rate of one pellet per square foot. If moisture, sun and temperature conditions are right, the seeds should germinate in the double-quick time of 48 hours, and each will start life with a helpful inheritance of rich...
...this new seeding method makes the Papago Reservation lush with Lovegrass, Dr. Adams intends to try it on other denuded regions in the dry Southwest. He looks forward to the time when his man-made bird-pellets will be used to reseed all Western rangelands every ten years...
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