Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the program would make Kirkland House more of an intellectual center for the science concentrators, "who now spend most of their time in the different laboratories." The meetings will also give students a chance to discuss the vocational opportunities in certain neglected fields, he said. These included forestry, soil science, and hydrography...
Before World War II, Pecos was nothing but a dusty crossroads cattle town. Then some oil wells came in, and irrigation experiments on the bone-dry soil paid off so well that Pecos became a thriving cotton center (pop. 12,450). To pick the crop each year, Pecos depends mainly on the braceros-legally imported Mexican laborers who come north to work the season for free transportation, shelter and an average of $35 a week. This year the Baptist General Convention of Texas decided to do something about their souls as well as their bodies. With a team...
...plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left it packed with barren red clay fit only for blackberry briars and bodock bushes that grew in tangled profusion...
...last real farmer his family was to produce-until Joe Moore, with an intense desire to restore the land to richness, came along. Joe is a living contradiction to the widespread-and wrong-explanation of U.S. farm productivity: the notion that the U.S. has "new" and naturally hyper-fertile soil. Joe successfully farms acres that would make a Polish peasant blanch with dismay. Yet he devoutly believes that his rocky slopes "can be made to grow good crops-just as good as the flat land, or maybe even better, with enough work. I'll make them grow everything they...
...Complex. Almost as a matter of course, Joe joined the F.F.A. when he entered high school in Gainesboro. Under his vocational agriculture teacher, Robert ("Woofie") Fox, Joe began studying the schoolbook side of modern farming: crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, grass and grain mixtures for good cover crops, soil testing, plant foods, livestock bacteria, basic veterinary practice. In shop class, Joe learned how to build hog feeders and cattle chutes, how to wire a barn for electricity, how to hang gates, how to solder and weld, and how to care for his machines. (Lesson I: "Grease is cheaper than bearings...