Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no time to be lost: "Protestantism has been too long going to seed in its sectarianism. To allow it . . . even so long a period as a generation in which to become strong enough to hope that it can win America, is to give it a longer lease than either secularism or Roman Catholicism may allow...
This year some 30,000 bushels of the new Redman seed will be ready for planting next spring. So too, probably, will seed for another new strain, Rescue wheat, on which the destructive wheatstem sawfly (annual damage: $20,000,000) blunts its proboscis in vain. This year, as the E.F.S. celebrates its 60th birthday, it could boast that it had made Canadian wheat the world's toughest...
...must be adapted to the individual pupil, instead of making all study the same thing in the same rote-ridden way. As director of the University of Chicago's Laboratory School (1902-04), Dewey fathered the movement now called progressive education-"learning by living." Whether he sowed good seed, or tares, or dragon's teeth, is a moot question still...
...luckiest seeds in nature are swallowed by birds, then dropped on their future sprouting places encased in pellets of fertilizer. Fruits and berries tempt birds to serve as airborne seed-planters...
...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, fertile soil...