Word: sorghums
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...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...
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Thus, most of the 21 buildings in Corn Products' $20 million sorghum processing plant, which was getting into full production last week, have no walls; some have no roofs either. Typical are the millhouse and the "steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution. The sea breeze keeps the steep house clear of choking sulphur fumes. The breeze also sweeps clean the floor under the silo conveyor belt, usually a collection spot for explosive dust...
...miles to fill his bag with books to bring back to his pupils. "I went with [them] to cornhuskings, apple-peelings, bean stringings, square dances, and to the belling of the bride when there was a wedding . . . I never missed a party at the mill when they made sorghum molasses ... I went to all the churches ... I went to parties where we played post office and where we danced Skip to my Lou . . . There was somewhere to go every night...