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...cleared two acres of jack pine and brush, near Grays Harbor, Washington lumber port, reinvested his bulbs. By 1943 he had 10,000, will harvest 50,000 this year. He will sell 10,000 to nurserymen at from 20? to $1 each (eight different grades) and replant...
Concentration of gold (if any) in horsetail ash will be far higher than in the soil it sprouted from. Hence it is practical in some cases to harvest and replant horsetail weed over low-grade surface ore fields rather than mine them. And seed selection may breed a still more efficient horsetail. At present a ton of horsetail from low-grade gold fields will yield as much as 4½ oz. of gold, worth $157.50. Value of a ton of good timothy...
...column is not merely a tower of simple wisdom and reproof for lustful maidens, conscience-stricken wives: it is also a civic institution. Nancy's readers gave her $1,400 to reforest 560 acres of land in northern Michigan, gave more to replant them when the young trees were burned over. In 1932, when the Detroit Symphony was going under, Nancy's newspaper family sponsored six concerts, put the orchestra back on dry land...
...Daughters of American Revolution in Washington, Indiana's Representative Virginia Ellis Jenckes clarioned: "If we were alert in the maintenance of true national defense we would, through proper legal action, root up every Japanese cherry tree on Federal property, saw them up for firewood, and replant them with American cherry trees." That day will mark a precedent Which brings no news of Rockwell Kent...
...reason why this picture should have stumbled into the things it does. John Meade, tycoon extraordinary, plays with natural resources as he does with the little country lass's heart--he is frank in his admission that his work is swindle by business technique, and he scorns to replant forests he devastates. When he shifts from lumber to wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility for the storm, and a farm movement led by the girl he has jilted. He is shot by a dispossessed farmer,--but not killed...