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Author Linderman shows Plenty-coups as a kindly, dignified, brave and wise old man. Not all his story was simple; when Linderman had difficulty in following the complications of the ancient tobacco-seed ceremony, Plenty-coups repeated the explanation twice, then said: "Ho! There is Something here! Something that does not wish you to understand. Do not try, Sign-Talker. Let it alone...
...rounding out their planting of this year's spring wheat crop. From Washington, D. C, Federal Farm Board Chairman Alexander Legge appealed to them over the radio to reduce their wheat acreages by 10% as a cooperative means of cutting the 1930 crop surplus. Ground was already broken, seed on hand. Not before summer will the Department of Agriculture be able to estimate whether northwest wheat men followed Chairman Legge's advice or whether his warning-plea reached them too late...
...0ther cottonseed products: rayon and paper, made from the fuzz stripped from the seed...
...scientists whose various temperaments Dr. Crocker must coddle, is the most thoroughly equipped in the world to study plant life. Outdoors and indoors, under sunlight and artificial light, in natural and laboratory atmospheres, the institute men study how and why plants thrive or fail. Thus Dr. Crocker, as the seed specialist, discovered that most seeds sprout quickly if they are kept dry and cold between harvest and planting, knowledge which benefits farmers incalculably. Other information is that extra carbon dioxide, such as can be washed out of factory coal smoke, speeds up the growth of the plants...
...Reykjavik there are no street cars, but many a Buick taxicab. Constantly soaring back and forth across the country ?a little smaller than Bulgaria or Kentucky?are two sturdy planes of the German Lufthansa. Two summers ago a German tourist brought several bags of vegetable seed, with the result that many nourishing plants, hitherto unknown in Iceland, sprouted and flourished last summer. But the Icelanders were not particularly pleased. They obey by instinct Explorer Stefansson's rule: A people react with pleasure to a new food in proportion as they have been accustomed to a varied diet. Accustomed...