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Planned Project. In Kansas City, Mo., the thief who broke into the Flower House took $21 worth of grass seed and a $23 lawnmower...
...astonished farmers and fishermen of Japan first saw his black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds of converts, sowed the seed of a Japanese church that numbers more than 100,000 Catholics in present-day Japan. Among them 1,200 missionaries, re-admitted after V-J day, are preaching and teaching to widen the saint's work...
...same time, 26,000 corn belt farmers from eastern Ohio to middle Nebraska are planting his seed corn-and by late .summer the tassels of Pfister strains will have over 5,000,000 acres. The hardy hybrid corns, grown by Pfister and others,* have wrought a U.S. agricultural revolution. Last year they pushed the national average yield of corn, once only 25 bu. per acre, to a record 42.7 bu. In Pfister's own county, the yield was 66 bu. per acre...
...went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper, he produced a ten-inch ear of corn, the best that any other Woodford County farmer had grown. Then he held up a handsome 14-inch ear of Pfister corn grown from hybrid seed. He got the loan...
...five biggest U.S. producers of hybrid seed corn: De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association Inc.; Pfister Associated Growers Inc. (which Pfister started and later left); Henry Wallace's Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. of Grimes, Iowa; Edward J. Funk & Sons of Kentland, Ind.; Pfister Hybrid Corn...