Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Munro will field the same team that best Tufts last Saturday, 3 to 6. This outfit has been playing together much of this week in practice and showing improved passing and team play. Fortified by a Varsity Club steak breakfast and playing their second straight game on home soil, the Crimson should be up for this...
...climate and fertile soil combine to produce vast quantities of rice, tea, sugar and fruit, including the round, yellow-fleshed watermelons which Formosans like to eat chilled in vinegar. In their paddy fields many Formosans grow two crops of rice each year, follow up with a third crop of turnips or cabbages...
...NAME RIDGE is a barren, useless place with a few scrub bushes and a patch of reddish soil in the center, the result of a landslide in some forgotten rainy season. To the right, a dark gully scars its side. It is called No Name Ridge for the quite straightforward reason that it has no name. But No Name Ridge will not be forgotten by the U.S. Marine Corps...
...theory, 2,4-D is supposed to kill only broad-leaved plants, not grasses, but Department of Agriculture men at Houma, La. found that when the potent chemical was applied directly to the soil surface, it prevented the sprouting of nearly all Johnson grass seedlings...
...many places new breeds of resistant insects. Forewarned by this disturbing experience, they gathered seed from some of the hardy Johnson grass survivors and tried the effect of 2,4-D on the second generation. It was just as they feared. Twice as many grass seedlings poked through the soil and twice as many grew to full, pestiferous maturity...