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Johnson grass, originally and recklessly introduced as a forage crop, is a pest in much of the South, especially in cane fields. Its perennial rootstocks can be clawed up through cultivation, but the pesky seeds keep blowing into cultivated fields from a distance...
Yukio Ozaki persisted. He had shoots taken from cherry trees near Tokyo and grafted on wild cherry roots. Set out in disinfected ground, the new trees grew pest-free and in 1911 Ozaki shipped 3,000 of them to Washington. This time the trees were found acceptable and planted along Washington's Tidal Basin...
Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus (Gabor Carelli, tenor; North Texas State College Chorus, Dallas Children's Choir, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Composed in 1923 to mark the soth anniversary of the union of the twin cities of Buda and Pest, this is probably 67-year-old Zoltan Kodaly's best work; in it is some of the most brilliant choral writing of the century. Performance and recording: excellent...
...ever accuse her of being a fuddyduddy. In her old age she approved of the new electric streetcars and telephones and raised her firm Peabody voice for women's suffrage. Author Tharp's judgment seems fair enough: "A walking encyclopedia of worthy causes, and . . . something of a pest. . . But no one could accuse her of insincerity...
...Woodward, Okla., state and federal experimenters found that airplane-sprayed 2,4-D, the chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and destroys as much as 90% of the pest. On de-brushed range, cattle gain 75% more weight per acre, and sell for twice as much as if they had to hunt grass among sagebrush...