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...Dutch successfully started planting cinchona trees in Java from one pound of South American seed. In recent years, after South American forests were plundered, the Dutch Kina Bureau controlled 95% of the world's quinine supply (33,000,000 oz.), kept the price pegged at an exorbitant 67? an oz. With Java now fallen to the Japanese, the supply of quinine to the U.S. (which has about 3,000,000 cases of malaria in the Southern States) has been cut off. So have all shipments to Russia, India and South America...
...Nature classes will learn that milkweed and dandelions disperse their seeds by means of tiny parachutes; that a maple seed drops like a helicopter...
...hoped to obtain 240,000,000 lb. of home-grown hemp, 14 times the U.S.'s peak production in World War I. CCC has barely taken its first baby step in the program: persuading U.S. farmers to plant 35,000 acres of hemp for 350,000 bushels of seed. To achieve that goal, the seed for the seed must be in the ground within three weeks...
...when CCC gets the seed, it must then lure more U.S. farmers to sow it across some 300,000 acres next year, teach them how to grow and harvest it. (But CCC knows of only ten people in all the U.S. who are fully versed in the sensitive art of harvesting hemp: cut too early, the fiber is weak, cut too late, it is damaged.) Thereafter, materials must somehow be found to build 100 processing plants near the new hemp fields, men must be trained to staff them...
...their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages. . . . It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. . . . Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time...