Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nobody do dese but me. I cain't help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when you're leavin' here you're goin' home. Well, I know I'm goin' to carve. Jesus has planted the seed of carvin' in me." Curiously, Sculptor Edmondson seldom goes to church, but likes to shout and praise God while carving. Unlike most religious Negroes, William Edmondson never quotes the Bible. "The oney time," said he last week, "as I tried to read the Bible against God's wishes...
...costly failures was an effort to settle 200 U. S. farmers in Alaska's Matanuska Valley, where many of those settlers, still remaining after two years of tribulation, are spending this summer trying to raise a crop of winter wheat because the Government supplied them with the wrong seed. In June 1936, R. A. had a 19,700 payroll. Last July, it had been cut almost in half. When R. A. officially died last week, its major functions were transferred to a new agency called Farm Security Administration, whose main job will be finishing R. A. projects already started...
...patron saint of U. S. applemen, Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was Jonathan Chapman, was first recorded as a slim 25-year-old who in 1801 turned up in Licking County, Ohio, leading a packhorse laden with apple seed brought from a Pennsylvania cider mill. At suitable spots Johnny stopped to plant his seed in neat rows for the benefit of settlers to come.* Far in advance of the frontier he roamed, following Indian trails or pushing rude boats, always planting new seed and returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave...
...many thousand apple trees raised from seed produces worthwhile fruit, but presumably pioneers were not particular. Today apple trees are grafted...
...Darré requisitioned all wheat and rye crops for the Third Reich. To guarantee enforcement, Heinrich Himmler, with a wave of his pince-nez, directed his State police to supervise all harvesting, transporting, and storage activities. Farmers may retain only enough for their personal appetite, feeding hired hands, and seed...