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Word: mulch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Products. Weyerhaeuser is turning out five bark products under the name, Silvacon. They can be used as a soil mulch, in the manufacture of phenolic resin and fiber paints, and as a plywood adhesive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: More Than the Squeal | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Last week the top U.S. soil expert, Soil Conservation Director Hugh Hammond Bennett, saluted Faulkner. Bennett pointed out that some pioneering farmers (notably United Fruit Co. and some Cuban sugar-cane growers) have long used a system of cultivation like Faulkner's, called "stubble mulch." The moldboard plow, agreed Bennett, is doomed, except for some special crops and uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down With the Plow | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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