Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donald Wyman, B.S. Penn. State '26, M.S. Cornell '29, Ph.D. '35, now on the Cornell faculty, was appointed Horticulturist at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard for three years, from January, 1936. He will supervise the living collections at the Arboretum. He is recognized as an expert on ornamental plants, soil fertilization, and plant propagation...
...Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes and restore coverages. ... I believe we must be prepared to subsidize directly such special crops until agriculture has again been brought into balance. At the end of such a road we could hope...
...session with Secretary Wallace, the farm leaders retired to draft a plan. Meanwhile, at a press conference President Roosevelt outlined the plan which the farm leaders were about to draft. Export subsidies were unthinkable, he explained, because, "We must avoid any national policy which will result in shipping our soil fertility to foreign nations." Conservation of the soil must be the keynote of U. S. agricultural policy...
...That the Secretary of Agriculture be empowered by the Congress of the United States to provide for the rental and withdrawal from commercial crop production, at equitable rates, of such land as may be necessary to promote the conservation of soil fertility and to bring about a profitable balance of domestic production with the total effective demand at profitable prices...
...farmer in Derry, N. B., Robert Frost in 1900 started his career. After five years tilling the soil, he took up teaching at Pinkerton Academy in that town, where he taught English. After a year at the State Normal School teaching Psychology, he went to Amherst College, England, where he was a professor of English, then to the University of Michigan, later to Yale, and now here...