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Farming is a business that changes slowly - except in wartime. This year's seed catalogs, agriculture college bulletins and reports of new research tell an exciting story of improved plants that promise higher yields of foodstuffs and fodder, of forgotten crops returning to favor, of drug plants formerly imported, now vital crops...
Department of Agriculture plans call for 500 acres of belladonna to be planted this year in east central states, notably Pennsylvania. In 1939 scarcely a handful of belladonna seed could be found in the U.S., but that was carefully grown and made possible a good 1942 crop whose product, used for surgical therapy, was above U.S. Pharmacopoeia standards...
Most sizable of the new crops is hemp, which will be grown this year on 350,000 acres in the midwest. To prepare for the new crop some 35,000 acres of hemp were grown in Kentucky and harvested for seed last year. For processing the hemp into badly needed ships' rope the Department of Agriculture is financing the construction of 71 midwest factories. Hemp was a big U.S. staple even before the Revolution, was used for homespun garments, twine, sacking, rigging, cables, hangmen's nooses. But foreign competition half century ago killed U.S. hemp production. Now Agriculture...
Last week the Sun announced smugly: ". . . exciting news for New Yorkers . . . John Kieran is coming. . . . His daily column 'One Small Voice' will be limited only by the scope and fertility of the Kieran mind. ..." The fertile Kieran mind had sprouted the seed which has been observed in other sportswriters, notably Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler-the desire to break away from the confinements of sports columning, to reach into the grab bag of memory, to write about anything and everything...
...upshot was that the Senate upheld the censors 34-to-2. Meanwhile the censors were feverishly banning not only cheap pornography but such books as Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed, one edition of Baedeker, the essays of William Ralph Inge, longtime "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's, and five bedtime stories. They also clamped down on most of the tales of the most distinguished Irish novelists, including Liam O'Flaherty...