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Rehabilitation is a long step further, and is really a deceptive name for new investment. It will be one thing to give bread to the people of Warsaw to see them through the first winter of freedom and to give seed for planting and pigs for breeding stock to Polish farmers, quite another to set the Poles up in the dairy business with new barns, tractors, tank trucks, cheese factories, and all the capital paraphernalia of advanced farming. Though such investment may be worth while, it will have to compete on economic terms with the attraction of similar possible investments...
Flooded Farms. The floods meant delayed planting this year, probably smaller harvests. Farmers who already had corn seed in faced the necessity for replanting: seed had either washed away or been rotted by too much moisture. In cities and towns, many a Victory gardener found his garden ruined. The American Red Cross estimated that more than 1,350,000 acres of land were inundated...
...Georgia, cold and rain delayed planting of most crops, rotted corn seed, damaged peach buds, killed tomatoes...
...Republican with the seed of the un born Progressive in me," young Ickes went back to the Record, became a political writer eager to help run the political mobsters out of Chicago. When he met stalwart, aggressive John Maynard Harlan, youthful aspirant for Chicago's mayoralty, Ickes began the first of a series of backbreaking, second-fiddle jobs under men he picked for their honesty and principles. Whether the party was Republican, Progressive or Democratic soon became immaterial ; Ickes went...
...many other possibilities. The stalk contains 10-20% of a fiber that is superior to cotton and linen intensile strength, second only to Manila hemp. In addition, milkweed seed contains 21% of a semi-drying oil almost identical with soybean oil, and the oil-free seed cake is a valuable livestock feed with 40% protein content...