Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husky workmen, clad in overalls, spent all yesterday afternoon drilling to find the quality of the soil in the University parking place on the corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke Streets...
Water was run into the hole through a wide hose, and formed a solution with loose soil at the bottom. The resultant mixture was forced to the top through a very narrow pipe, and was collected in a trough...
...those parts of Kansas and states of the North Central region where corn is the chief crop, farmers will be told how much corn to plant, get an extra 5% added to their soil-diversion bounty if they obey. If they exceed their planting limit, there will be a deduction for each extra acre. Thus the Department, fearing a surplus which would send corn and hog prices crashing, hopes to bring corn acreage from 1932-33's 59,000,000 and last year's 54-500,000 acres down to some 54,000,000 acres. Reluctant to discuss...
Borrowing a campaign simile from Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last fortnight compared his 1936 soil conservation program and forthcoming 1937 plan as follows: "The two will be as nearly alike as the 1937 and 1936 models of automobiles. We think we have perfected a new carburetor for the 1937 program...
...week Secretary Wallace put his 1937 model on display for farmers' inspection. Costing the same $500,000,000, it was basically identical with the apparatus whipped together last spring after the Supreme Court had ruled the AAAct off the road. As a reward for diverting their acres from "soil-depleting" crops (cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco) to "soil-building" crops (alfalfa, soybeans, grasses), farmers will receive Federal bounties averaging slightly less than $10 per acre. Thus, by the back door of soil conservation, the New Deal will continue to achieve some production control of cash crops, which the Supreme Court...