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...Seed. A powerful minority of the 2,500,000 Slovaks has long given the impression that they are all devoutly Catholic, anti-German, anti-Czech, antiCommunist, preeminently pro-Slovak. Their hilly land (14,484 sq. mi.) had been a part of Hungary for 1,011 years when, in 1918, the Versailles peacemakers joined Slovakia to Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and created Czechoslovakia. (Ruthenia, which the Russians entered last week, became a part of Czechoslovakia in 1919, was seized by Hungary...
During the '30s, North Dakota lost almost everything but its weathered denims and its prized "elbow room." Last year the state came back as one of the nation's biggest breadbaskets: first in spring and durum wheat production, first in barley, second in certified seed potatoes. North Dakota farms (average 1940 census value: $8,742) brought in an average 1943 income...
Last week in Watford City, its 95 government bins groaning with grain, its four elevators busily cleaning seed wheat, MacKenzie County examined its new prosperity...
...Farmer P. L. Peterson, 59, had a record year. He hired a man (at $7 a day); paid $1,000 to have his combining done; paid $1,000 in old seed loans, $800 in back taxes, $400 in income taxes; bought a seed drill, a wind charger, a secondhand Ford, an electric cream separator, a washing machine, an electric iron and a radio; surfaced the road leading up to the highway. He still had money left to buy war bonds and plunk in the bank...
...Bainer's seed splitting enables the beet to compete honestly with cane, it may have a drastic effect on the entire economy of some cane-producing countries...