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Reforestation was now a well-developed technique. Big companies like Weyerhaeuser collected tons of fir seed, cleaned it with special machinery and planted it as carefully as farmers planting cabbage. The industry made pulp, plywood and innumerable new products. But like Puget Sound's fleet of salmon trollers and purse seiners, it was tapping an exhaustible commodity-neither industry could expand beyond certain rigid limits without inviting disaster...
...tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord...
...estimated crop of 1,185,000,000 bushels, some 40 million more than last year's bumper harvest. Much the same thing can happen in the corn fields. Corn farmers may plant only 82.7 million acres, their smallest sowing in 50 years. But sunny skies and hybrid seed can easily produce another bumper crop this year...
...tree nurseries. There were corridors lined with forsythia, a pathway crowded by tulips, and long banks of orchids, all of them impossibly weedless and neat. The show had a pleasant and phony air of spring about it, as if it were a sudden incarnation of illustrations from a seed catalogue. The spring feeling was partly due to the chirps and warblings which permeated one part of building. We found that these were emanating from a booth occupied by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, where a saleslady was giving a sample playing of some bird song records. They were on vinylite...
...combat the famine, Communist Tung outlined some measures. "By the mountain, eat from the mountain. By the river, eat from the river." Tung ordered the refugees put to work rebuilding the dikes of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, promised loans for seed grains, sent soldiers to work in the fields. Government workers and soldiers were exhorted: "Save an Ounce of Rice." Tung claimed that the "head" of the famine had been dealt with, but admitted that the job had been botched in places. Refugees had been permitted to slaughter or sell irreplaceable work animals. "Bureaucracy," said Tung, "is still strong...