Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Windy Battle. In areas of deep soil that has had good care, even this has not yet proven disastrous. In the last two decades man has learned to battle the wind: by planting windbreaks and cover crops, by contour plowing to keep precious moisture in the soil, by use of the double-mouldboard lister plow, which ridges the ground and slows down wind action, by "chiseling" the earth with a spike-toothed Hoeme's* plow, which brings clods of subsoil to the surface...
When the settlers cleared New England forests 300 years ago. the A-horizon (topsoil) that they found was only two to three inches thick (Iowa topsoil formed under permanent grass is often 18 inches thick). Below this was sterile subsoil, and when the plow mixed the two together, the blend was low in nearly everything that a good soil should have. It was not the lavish virgin soil of popular fancy...
University employees banded together with the winter elements to maroon this auto on Holyoke St. Men shoveling the stops of the I.A.B. covered the side of the car. A snow plow moving up the street completed the burial on the other...
Hitch that blister, disk and plow...
...even the fish nor the birds are permitted freedom of action. Pegasus himself has been chained to the plow. None knows his native element, but all must dance-or work-to the tune of one piper. But in one small area lies hope. It is clearly shown that, even though carried on within the close confines of the underground, by the mother's careful nurturing of her child, the intellectual's closing his ear to the piper's tune, and the freeman's bending faithfully to his task (or is that Picasso molding...