Word: sorghums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas river bottoms the sweet gum trees were tinged with yellow. At night, deer jumped the wire fences to nibble at the heavy-headed sorghum. The rivers ran low and clear, and yellow cats, black bass, carp and perch sailed lazily in their depths, too fat to bother with baited hooks. In northern Michigan, the bow & arrow boys, 18,000 strong, patiently honed their two-and three-bladed arrows, tentatively twanged their 5O-lb. bows, got out their brown-and-green camouflage suits, the grease paint and burnt cork for blacking their faces while stalking the wary deer...
...page October (35? a copy) issue, the 30 color plates are of birds, sorghum-growing, and eye-catching photographs of autumn in the Southwest; the articles are on such subjects as Indian fighters and a ghost mining town. When 44-year-old Editor Carlson, a onetime small-town (Miami, Ariz.) newspaperman, began running Highways in 1937, it was a house organ for road builders, its pages a hodgepodge of construction notices and contractors' ads. With his $100,000 yearly appropriation from the state, Carlson kicked out the ads, and turned Highways into a mirror of the beauties of Arizona...
...sagebrush, the bureau's experimental farms, now watered from pumped wells, look like green postage stamps pasted on brown paper. One acre of their pasture supports three head of cattle. The bureau's farmers have harvested 160 bushels of grain sorghum per acre, five tons of alfalfa hay, 32 tons of sugar beets. The U.S. average is 23.1 bushels of sorghum per acre, 2.23 tons of alfalfa, 14.8 tons of beets. Figures like these excite the settlers, who clamor for many times as much land as can be watered next season...
...Sorghum...