Word: tilth
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Older cultures had their feeder roots deep in the soil. This meant more than the tactile love that can tell the soil's fertility and tilth from a little dirt crumbled be tween two fingers. It meant the abiding shadowy love of the soil because of the generations who have gone into it and populate it. For culture of this kind U. S. history was too short...
Last week in the corn belt, farmers were getting their fields in tilth for corn. In the wheat belt, spring wheat was being seeded -two weeks late because of cold. In the northern half of the cotton belt, cottonseed was going into the ground. In Texas, cotton plants were coming up. On the prairies-save where dust and drought had ruined it-winter wheat was growing green and waving in the breeze. In farmsteads everywhere newly farrowed piglets were lying like pink sausages at the teats of deflated sows. And in Washington, now that May was there, a crop...