Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as amazed as hog expert Darlington would have been, to see a sow being serviced by a boar, while her young nursed. One of the most fascinating aspects of nature is its variations from the norm. If animals and human beings always acted and reacted according to known formulae, there would be little interest in either, writers would have nothing to write about, and I think the world would be considerably duller...
...common knowledge that the young of most species attempt nursing after the mother is through with them. Mother dogs snap at their puppies; mother cats send their insistent kittens sprawling. When the young pigs of the sow in question "seized the moment of her immobility to nurse," it is probable that they were recently weaned, and, as I indicated, were taking unfair advantage of the situation...
...read your enjoyable review of Cross Creek by Marjorie Rawlings [TIME, March 23]. And ... I wish to state that Miss Rawlings clearly does not know her hogs. . . . She states on p. 263 that a sow was suckling pigs and at the same time being serviced by a boar. A sow will refuse to take a boar until her previous litter are weaned. However in three days after the pigs are weaned she is willing to take. In this respect hogs are smarter than men and women as they thereby gain strength to support adequately the new litter. I have raised...
...announced that, with 170,000 men already at work in its plants, it will have 240,000 by fall. The aircraft plants, munitions factories, all the rest of the war's 50% of U.S. production will need more help, by the millions. And the farmers, encouraged to sow and reap the vastest harvest ever seen, have not yet been heard from. The weight of war was beginning to press on every U.S. home...
...when CCC gets the seed, it must then lure more U.S. farmers to sow it across some 300,000 acres next year, teach them how to grow and harvest it. (But CCC knows of only ten people in all the U.S. who are fully versed in the sensitive art of harvesting hemp: cut too early, the fiber is weak, cut too late, it is damaged.) Thereafter, materials must somehow be found to build 100 processing plants near the new hemp fields, men must be trained to staff them...