Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every night last week, special freight trains pulled out of Tifton, Ga., and sped north over the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line roads. The lo-to-yo-car trains, as well as dozens of chartered airliners, all carried the same load: tomato seed plants. Before the short shipping season ends, South Georgia farmers will ship a billion tender young tomato plants for planting in northern fields, along with hundreds of millions of onion, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potato, pepper and lettuce seedlings...
...from home rather than become a machinist, as his father wanted. He went to Florida and worked on a tomato farm, where he got the idea for the seedling business. At 17, he returned to Tifton, started to raise plants. First year's yield: 35 Ibs. of cabbage seed, some 350 bu. of potatoes...
...their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...
Everywhere in Europe, seed came alive, but Europe had reason to wonder whether the seed of its own old civilization was still viable...
...past, to watch for blossoms in the orange and lemon trees, but to see whether the river level was rising; for Italy was parched by its worst drought in two centuries. Heavy gusts of spring rain finally swelled the river, and softened the brittle earth to the seed...