Word: sprayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daddy strapped the sprayer on and went back to work in the tobacco. He worked until it was so dark he couldn't see, and then he hitched Daisy to the only two cows he had ever owned and dragged them off behind the field for the buzzards to eat. He was afraid to butcher them because of the poison...
Another problem is whether farmers can keep up the rate of technological innovation that has made U.S. agriculture the productivity wonder of the world. So far, agricultural tinkerers are continuing to develop new techniques and devices. One of them: a herbicide sprayer with a receiver that catches any spray that does not hit a plant and recycles it into the pump, economizing on spray and preventing pollution of the ground. Another innovation is an irrigation system that covers even more ground than a center-pivot machine; it is a diesel-powered contraption that pushes a boom a half mile long...