Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corn is planted (with a horse-drawn planter) about the second week in May. As soon as the green spikes pierce the black soil, it is cultivated with a rotary hoe. Dale Kuester claims that, when in form, he can hoe 80 acres between sunup and sundown. After three hoeings, there are two more complete cultivations with regular corn cultivators...
...things: a small health center which now houses a resident nurse, study clubs to plan and carry out better farming techniques, a cooperative homestead plan to encourage young couples to stay in Big Lick. The state college and TVA have selected Big Lick as a demonstration area to dramatize soil conservation...
...even more strongly than he had in his Navy Day speech. Truman said: "We hope for the peaceful settlement of the differences which have arisen between colonial peoples and colonial sovereigns in all areas. The roots of democracy, however, will not draw much nourishment in any nation from a soil of poverty and economic distress...
...There was a high degree of cooperation between American universities," he continued. "Each had a special assignment. Harvard scientists studied soil mechanics, blood fractionation, treatment of burns, underwater sound, electrical phenomena in the ionosphere, and countless other fields of military importance...
...Holy Land, about the size of Vermont, is a rundown, beaten-up Southern California. It has a similar climate, with winter rains and summer drought, but it may have better soil. Almost any crop, from barley to bananas, will thrive in Palestine if given proper irrigation...