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Like crab grass in a suburban lawn, wild oats in a field of wheat are an insidious pest. The stubborn weed looks like wheat, grows like wheat, and is so closely related to wheat that neither cultivation nor common weed killers can hold it back without harming the wheat crop. But a couple of U.S. manufacturers have finally concocted the kind of agricultural magic that farmers have been seeking for centuries: a weed-killing chemical so selective that it can actually tell wild oats from wheat...
Stirred into the soil, Avadex (Monsanto Chemical Co.) kills wild oats just as seeds begin to sprout. Carbyne (Spencer Chemical Co.) is sprayed on weed seedlings causing them to turn blue and shrivel, while surrounding wheat continues to thrive. Tested on wheatfields in Can ada and the U.S., the two chemicals have been a spectacular success, sometimes boosting an area's yield by as much as 15 bu. an acre. They will get their first full-scale workout this spring on the rolling wheatland of Western Canada...
...Kennedys soon melted the Canadian ice. At a formal state dinner for 100, every head snapped around as though at parade-ground command to admire the entrance of Jackie Kennedy in her pure white silk sheath. At the following reception for 500, her husband deftly fielded all topics, talked wheat with a Saskatchewan reporter, education with a college girl, trucks with a transport official and freedom of the press with a publisher. The wife of Defense Production Minister Raymond O'Hurley told Kennedy that her relatives in Ohio and Connecticut had all voted for him. "Well," replied the President...
Last week the levels in irrigation tanks sank low from the Dakotas to New Mexico. Montana wheat farmers expected slender harvests this year. Utah ranchers gazed out upon dried-up springs and pondered how to water their herds. In Nevada...
...nations on earth have as cliched a relationship as do Canada and the United States. Even Canada's complaints are frequently endless echoes of the same old hat--excessive U.S. business domination, cultural influence, free wheat dumped on potential Canadian markets, and just plain policy dictates...