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...breed oats resistant to Helminthosporium victoriae blight, Dr. Wheeler decided to copy the method of the bacteriologists. He reports in Science that he sprouted 100 bu. of oats (about 45 million grains), then doused the sprouted seeds with the toxin (poisonous secretion) of the Helminthosporium fungus, and later with the fungus itself. Out of the 45 million, 973 seedlings survived and grew. Thirty days later they were treated with all the other oat diseases, and 471 survived the second ordeal...
Benson also had the tricky corn-hog ratio to consider. This ratio determines, in effect, whether a farmer can make more money by selling his corn or by feeding it to his hogs (it takes about 9 bu. of shelled corn to put 100 lbs. on a hog). When the price of corn is low in relation to that of hogs, it is more profitable to turn the corn into pork; that was the case through most of 1954, with the result that the 1954 fall pig crop was 16% bigger than in 1953, and the 1955 spring pig crop...
...generation ago hybridization of corn -combining the best properties of parent types into a better offspring-revolutionized U.S. agriculture, resulted in upping corn yields by 500 million bu. without putting a new acre into cultivation. Last week U.S. Agriculture Department scientists reported another breakthrough with another feed grain: the flat-leafed, tall-stalked sorghum that waves in many a dry field in the Great Plains. Within five years most of the more than 10 million acres now planted to grain sorghum will be switched to the new hybrid seed, thus raise sorghum output by 20% to 40% on the same...
...sell part of the worrisome surplus behind the Iron Curtain for cash. To Red-run Czechoslovakia will go 300,000 lbs. of butter at 42½? a lb.-15½? less than the government's own purchasing price. For $19 million, grain-hungry Poland will get 10 million bu. of low-grade wheat...
...state and county fairs years ago, the crowning events for U.S. farmers were such contests as corn picking and husking and a tug of war between horses. A fast-working champion could harvest corn at the rate of 100 bu. a day. But today's farmer has little interest in such events; with a mechanical corn picker, he thinks nothing of picking and husking 1,500 bu of corn a day. For machine-age farmers a big event at fairs is the tractor rodeo," in which farmers compete at starting tractors attaching implements, plowing the straightest, fastest furrows. Merely...