Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made 80 millionaires and who now manages the Brown Derby. She is also a farmer. Several years ago in her native Queen Anne's County, Maryland, she decided to turn two worn-out farms into a paying proposition. Patiently she coaxed the barren soil with flax seed. This season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising has been raised from an experiment to a county industry. Were more farmers like Flax Grower Raskob...
Senator Gillett's "seed" speech was duly reported in the reliable Springfield Republican, oldtime Bible of many a G. 0. Politician. The "seed" about Mrs. Smith soon brought forth hot letters from Massachusetts Democrats. The Republican newsman, George E. Pelletier, who had reported Senator Gillett's remarks, called on the Senator to see if he would like to end the unfinished sentence about Mrs. Smith. The Senator said he did not exactly recall what he had said, that it was unimportant anyway...
Sharp-eyed Newsman Pelletier saw the Senator's letter in the Times and last week wrote a letter himself. He told the Times about calling on the Seed-Sower and concluded with all the indignation of an upright journalist: ". . . It is the first time the charge of 'misquoted' has been aimed at me and it is baseless, even though it comes from a Senator...
...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...
...Seeds. Recently Prof. William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, announced that he could fertilize seeds with phosphate salts making fertilization of the soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...