Word: grasslands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another thing they laugh at is the familiar phrase, "irreplaceable topsoil." Topsoil should certainly be cherished and protected, the soil men say, but it is not irreplaceable. In 1937, a U.S. Government experiment station skinned ten inches of soil off half an acre of virgin Ohio grassland, leaving nothing but the yellow subsoil. Corn planted on an untreated strip of this poor stuff produced no crop at all. But other strips were nursed along with fertilizer and crop rotations. During the sixth season, the best strip of man-made topsoil produced 86 bushels of corn an acre, more than twice...
What the World Can Do. The chernozems and other temperate grassland soils are mostly in use already; all they ever needed was simple plowing & planting. But there are still large areas of unused forest soils (podsols) which can be made productive by up-to-date methods as soon as transportation makes them accessible and a market appears for their produce...
Gifts & Signatures. Lobengula was the last South African native king to fight for his independence. He ruled a territory as large as Finland, bounded by the Zambezi and the Limpopo Rivers. But even in this large and lonely expanse of grassland he could feel the presence of Portuguese, Germans, British and Boers. These white people sent emissaries to his court bearing gifts of champagne, brandy and sovereigns. Afterwards, they always asked Lobengula if he would kindly sign a piece of paper called a "concession." which permitted them to dig in the ground like children, and to open little stores. Lobengula...
Along footworn trails through grassland and jungle hurried the villagers, with feathers in their fuzzy-wuzzy hair, ocher paint on their black bodies, drums and pipes slung across their shoulders. Near the white man's busy base at Finschhafen they converged...
Best of the lot is Spring Offensive, a two-reeler designed to acquaint the British countryside with the reasons for and methods of plowing under 10% of the nation's grassland for food crops. It is an almost perfect example of the high technical quality and emotional drive of the artfully made documentary...