Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvest. A Kansas City trapshoot proprietor added a new business to his old. From his six-acre tract he is scraping an inch of top soil which is run through a hopper. Recovery to date: 20 tons of lead and brass shot. He hopes to recover 100 more...
This was the first burial in home soil of an American killed in action in World...
...people's health to battle strength-fresh meat & vegetables, dairy produce, fruit, eggs, etc. Moreover, they must produce enough of these to feed not only the home front but also its armed forces and allies overseas. Says Food (paraphrasing Secretary of Agriculture Wickard) America's is the "soil which will win the war and write the future...
Last spring Decca's specialties man, Frank Luther, asked Painter Benton to record some of the music played at his get-togethers. The result: Saturday Night at Tom Benton's-music as tangy and close to the soil as Tom Benton's paintings. Father and son blow their way with true amateur zest (and professional assistance from strings and voices) through three homely folk tunes: Cindy, Old Joe Clark and the fine, mournful Wayfaring Stranger. On three more sides they romp through two simple, diverting pieces (Gay Head Dance, Chilmark Suite) written for them by Edward Robinson...
These useful germs, the only controllable source of agricultural nitrogen besides chemicals, are found in most good farm soils. They live in nodules on the roots of leguminous plants (peas, beans, alfalfa, clover), contribute twice as much nitrogen (33% of the return) to the soil as manures and chemical fertilizers together. But their natural activity can be artificially increased if more bacteria are mixed with legume seed and planted with it. This process is called soil inoculation. Farmers buy the inoculating bacteria in cans of moist humus or bottles of sugary jelly. Enough bacteria for an acre cost from...