Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOUSTON Bureau Chief Mark Sullivan first set foot on Texas soil in August 1959, when he crossed the Red River near Denison and was somewhat disappointed to see that the Texas side looked the same as the Oklahoma side. In the 4½ years since, he has been in virtually every corner of the state, even to Wink, Waxahachie, North Zulch, Buffalo Gap and Muleshoe. What he has found, as he reported for this week's cover story, is that "there are few if any generalities that can be applied to the state as a whole." Writer Ed Magnuson...
...Ranch." Said Connally: "This is my children's property. The Cs stand for children.* I bought this spread for them, and I like them to come down and use it as much as they can. It's good for a person to get back to the soil, away from things, back here where you can think...
That old farmer, Nikita Khrushchev, has lately learned that a lot of things have changed down on the farm since he broke the Russian soil behind a mare. To explain away the fact that Russia harvests less than the U.S., though it cultivates twice as much farm land, Khrushchev insists: "Yields don't depend upon the system. It's merely a matter of the U.S.'s producing more mineral fertilizer." Fertilizer, for so long the essential ingredient of barnyard humor, has become a vital factor in the economic cold war, and Khrushchev has launched a costly crash...
...into him as skillfully as he digs into the soil of the Holy Land. And you produced...
...using chemical fertilizer; the Ukraine is planning a crash program to educate 4,000 "skilled fertilizer appliers." Superphosphate fertilizer arrives at the farms with only 20% of the required chemical nutrients; the rest is worthless ballast that gets lumpy and heavy in the rain. Russia has an impressive 561 soil laboratories, but most of them have only one or two employees and the wrong equipment...