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...Karmal's message almost reverently appealed for an Afghan-Iranian revolutionary entente based on "Islamic brotherhood" and a shared hostility toward "American world imperialism-the No. 1 irreconcilable enemy of all the people of the world." Karmal promised that his government "will never allow anybody to use our soil as a base against Islamic revolution in Iran"-adding that "we expect our Iranian brethren to resume a reciprocal stance...
...climate around Epernay, France, provide nature's ideal spot for nurturing champagne grapes, the Midwest's long growing season, heavy spring or summer rains and rich, two-foot-deep topsoil are perfect for grain cultivation. Kansas and Oklahoma are wheat country. Just north in the hardy soil of Illinois and Iowa lie the great corn belt and vast fields of soybeans. Farther north, in the Dakotas and Minnesota, grow wheat, soybeans, sugar beets. Here is the richest farm land east of Eden, where the biblical seven years of bountiful harvests are usually followed not by famine...
These innovations created spectacular crops. Since 1940 the American wheat yield per acre has more than doubled, from 15.3 bu. to 34.2 bu., and the corn output has almost quadrupled, from 28.4 bu. to 109.2 bu. Soybeans, which grow lavishly in the same weather and soil conditions as corn, expanded spectacularly. Production increased from 555 million bu. in 1960 to 2.2 billion bu. last year. While a Soviet farmer grows 45 bu. of corn an acre, his American counterpart produces...
Modern farm-belt agriculture, however, has brought with it a new manifestation of an age-old problem -soil erosion. Inadequate conservation measures combined with very heavy planting have led to excessive runoffs of soil into rivers and streams. In such Plains states as Nebraska and Kansas, where often only scattered trees break the wind, some farmers watch helplessly as their most valuable asset blows away. The Agriculture Department considers the loss of five tons of soil an acre annually to be excessive; below that, the land can renew itself fairly well. Yet Illinois farms are eroding at an average...
...subject (New Encyclopedia of Wines and Spirits), and, with the late Frank Schoonmaker, did more than any one to evangelize California wines, starting 40 years ago, when there was not too much to evangelize. Says he:"California wines should be proud of their origins. California has unique climates, unique soil and the talented people to turn good grapes into good wine. In time, California will stop trying to compete with France and will pro duce wines that are uniquely and quintessentially Californian. They should be great." And Young Bacchus will have come...