Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chapin Jones, Virginia State Forester, asked Governor John Garland Pollard to urge his people to extraordinary care in setting blazes. In Georgia, where officials have been trying to educate people to adopt the plow-under method of spring clean-up as a means of soil enrichment, Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman pressed his campaign for fire prevention among all planters...
...similar crops of wheat or corn. The cost of McKee poplar seedlings is about $5 per acre. In eight years the crop is worth $600 per acre. Over a like period, $240 per acre would be a fair return for wheat crops. Poplars can also be grown on barren soil that now produces nothing. In addition to being valuable for papermaking, tree harvests could be sold as cellulose for rayon manufacture...
...funeral frock coats and stiff choker collars, Reichstag deputies joined President Paul von Hinderburg last week in a memorial service for Germany's War dead. Of the 2,000,000 Germans who were killed during the War, only 200,000 or 10% lie buried in German soil...
...less important part of Indian diet. In choosing the manufacture of salt as the starting point of his campaign, Gandhi enlisted the sympathies of India's masses whose average wage of three cents a day renders government Salt prices almost prohibitive. Religion is deeply rooted in India's soil; by investing his pilgrimage with religious fervor, Gandhi makes further universal appeal...
...Revolution, Kentuck was a land of milk and honey to the struggling settlers of the Virginia back-woods. Only the most daring of hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used it for their battle ground...