Word: agronomist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Figl had played a minor role in pre-Anschluss politics. Politically to the left of Dollfuss, he was never close to the inner circle of Dollfuss' Christian Social Party. A peasant-born agronomist, Figl was a director of the Catholic Bauernbund (farmer's association) of Lower Austria...
...armchair agronomist, Ray Anderson's talents range far afield from reporting. His farm page is a bursting bin of unmetered verse, sound information on crops and controls, self-snapped pictures, Falstaffian musings on the "gorgeous gorging" of apple-mulberry pie at Center Junction. Before gasoline rationing slowed his pace he averaged 38,000 miles a year, perhaps half of them over unpaved pikes and stubbly fields...
...simple device which shows farmers the moisture content of their grains and forage, enabling them to judge proper time for harvest and storage. (Many a barn is set alight by spontaneous combustion of hay, stored too wet.) With the new gadget, invented by Ohio Agronomist Robert Q. Parks, the farmer can test his crops quickly in the field by adding water-hungry calcium carbide to plant tissue, which then loses weight in proportion to its moisture content...