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...Komsomolskaya Pravda, another complained: "The soil begins to dry . . . The cause is lack of manpower. Things are managed the wrong way. Seventeen-year-old girls from the city who have never held a pitchfork in their hands work in the hayfields, while two husky kolkhoz fellows just sit by the stove, drink vodka and tell funny jokes...
...burly shoulders of Khrushchev rests responsibility for a great gamble of men and machines that the Kremlin calls "development of virgin soil and wasteland." Since February, tens of thousands, mostly young Russians and Ukrainians-many of them never before close to a farm-plus hundreds of the best Soviet agricultural engineers and scientists, have been dragooned into a great eastward migration to convert 32 million acres of untilled land into a new Communist breadbasket as great as the Ukraine. Big percentages of Russia's farm-machinery output (e.g., 120,000 tractors this year, just about all that Russia...
Commandment 8-a. In Levittown, Pa., thefts of top soil from the grounds of the Hope Lutheran Church stopped after the Rev. Charles L. Ertman posted a sign reading: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL CHURCH TOP SOIL...
...Nightingale does not use normal irrigation methods. He flushes dried salt out of the soil, and he plants his crops on the sides of furrows so that their roots will avoid concentrations of salt. He expects that his salt irrigation system will add considerably to the food production of Hawaii's islands...
...market by the Bardmatic Corporation of Muskegon, Mich. Refuse is dumped into an underground container and sprinkled with a charge of chemicals before the unit's conical steel top is clamped into place. Liquefied by reaction with the chemicals, the garbage seeps off into the soil. Since the reaction is continuous, the first charge of chemicals lasts indefinitely. Price...