Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the first big step last week toward making the United Nations a working organization. To the governments of 38 nations went invitations to participate in a conference on postwar food problems to be held somewhere on U.S. soil, starting April...
There will be a list posted on the bulletin boards of Pierce and Austin Halls some time next week so you can sign up with your party. All members of Engineering 270, 800, Soil Engineers, and the stafis together will their guests are cordially invited. It will be held at the Harvard Faculty Club on Quincy Sthreet from 2000-24000, April 17th. There will be a charge of 50c per person to defray expenses...
Nursing Sick Pigs. Best help in preventing hog worms is good pasture rotated so that young pigs (most susceptible to worms) are put on parasite-free soil. Lice, which may cause restlessness and lack of appetite, can be killed by oily dips. Lime and sulfur solution controls mange. In each case, the whole pig must be dipped. Usual system is to make him swim through a dip 40 or more inches deep, duck his head somewhere en route...
...farmers forget that "a sow must be fed for milk production to insure strong, thrifty pigs." Her diet must include protein, minerals, vitamins. To provide the farrow with enough copper and iron, a preparation may be placed on the sow's udder, or clean, parasite-free sod or soil placed...
Botanists haunted bomb cavities for London rocket (Sisymbrium irio), which flourished after the great fire of 1666. Already 95 types of flowers and shrubs unknown for decades before the blitz have been found in holes where nitrates from burning bombs have enriched the soil...