Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Hugo, Colo., when Farmer Hutchins went to bed one evening last week, three-inch green shoots covered his 50 acres, promising a 20,000-lb. yield of beans. At sundown the next day every single sprout had been devoured down to the ground, below the ground. The land was almost out of sight beneath a dusty- grey, endless horde of grasshoppers, plodding inexorably onward, eating every shred of living vegetation. There were dozens and scores of 'hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside...
...July the 'hoppers sprout wings and take to the air, may do even more damage after flying has started than when crawling. Last week Watson Davis, reporting for Science Service, told how some curious person had marked a squadron of 'hoppers with luminous paint, to see how fast the crawling horde was moving. Speed...
...greenhouse which sunlight kept normally at a temperature of 85°, the plant had stood inert for five years in a box of earth four feet square. Three new leaves appeared but quickly withered and died. After this came a sprout which The Bronx scientists rightly took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant...
...years music has been heard at the Class Day game. Because of pressure of studies, members of the band will form no letters or clever formations. Instead, they will remain in their seats, stolidly peering over the bleachers in the hope that a pair of goal-posts will sprout from the pitcher's mound...
...water are those which ordinary plants need and get from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another 26 bushels of potatoes along with...