Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought full of alarm to many thinkers, will offer to the American radical, says Dr. Conant, a God-given opportunity to "reintroduce the American concept of a fluid society." Handled properly, a healthy body politic will be assured for at least a generation; handled improperly, "we may well sow the seeds of a civil war within a decade...
From the New York State College of Agriculture came a 32-page pamphlet of recipes and menus, prodigal with suggestions. The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog peanut, yellow goatsbeard, spatterdock...
Underfeeding sows (a common practice in the last part of pregnancy) may result in piglets which die of "baby pig disease" (shortage of blood sugar) or scours. And many farmers forget that "a sow must be fed for milk production to insure strong, thrifty pigs." Her diet must include protein, minerals, vitamins. To provide the farrow with enough copper and iron, a preparation may be placed on the sow's udder, or clean, parasite-free sod or soil placed...
...Balkan woods held their first anemones. Peasants spanned their plows, knowing that guns sow no seeds but that the men of war must eat. In Czechoslovakia eleven underground workers were executed. In Yugoslavia there were reports of 30,000 war-orphaned children roaming, singly and in packs, over the countryside, starving, dying, turning into fierce hooligans...
...born in Iowa in 1943, nor would it be the last. But in a hungry world, in a nation that for the first time in its history faced the specter of hunger, few events in the U.S. last week were of more importance than the humble birth of sow No. ID'S two-pound pig. (Her litter: eight.)* By so much had the nation's meat supply been increased, by so much had the Battle of Food been...