| 单词 | seed corn |
| 例句 | The wheat crop was full of weeds, and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Luke made it over to Jen’s only once in all of February, and twice in March, when Dad began driving around looking for the best seed corn prices. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z All there is to store work is watchin’ out for rice weevils and rotten potatoes, and keepin’ the rats out of the seed corn.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z On the first occasion they were lucky enough to find and kill a sick owl that had eaten a mouse that had eaten poison-dressed seed corn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Not when he pulled the curtain and drew the sorceress up from the plank, not when the seed corn he’d piled on her stomach like peaches spilled off. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The curse of London fashion in the past has been that the excellent art colleges have provided the seed corn for powerful fashion houses that are rarely based in Britain. Harvesting the Seed Corn 2012-09-14T16:21:47Z He calls it "seed corn" money or "risk investment", because the organisations themselves produce two pounds for every one the council puts in. Peter Bazalgette: 'Maybe I don't qualify as great or good' 2013-02-24T00:06:07Z In helping Marion recover the seed corn commandeered in lieu of punitive taxation, Robin takes his first steps into excusable criminality. Robin Hood 2010-05-15T23:09:00Z He knows of just one exception to this policy in his lifetime: In 1996, his father gave seed corn back to the Mohegans, after the tribe won federal recognition. A Thanksgiving History Lesson in a Handful of Corn 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z In 2016, Mo Hailong was sentenced to three years in prison for conspiring to steal trade secrets from American seed corn companies. House committee probing Chinese tech theft from Iowa farmers 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z In addition to the nod to America’s birthday, the festival marks the 100th anniversary of the first acre of commercial hybrid seed corn, grown and harvested in Altoona in 1923. Revelers across the US brave heat and heavy downpours to celebrate Fourth of July 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z So instead of investing further in their businesses, they choose to eat their "seed corn" by prioritizing short-term gains over long-term investments and by "investing" additional profits in their shareholders. Ultimate all-American slush fund: Budget loophole could send Pentagon spending soaring even higher 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Mexico was where corn was first domesticated starting around 9,000 years ago, and in order to protect its native varieties, the country will still ban imports of GM seed corn. US asks Mexico for trade consultations over GM corn limits 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Mexico was where corn was first domesticated starting around 9,000 years ago, and the country will still ban imports of GM seed corn to protect native varieties. Mexico softens plan to ban imports of US GM feed corn 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The Russian military has already deployed many officers and instructors who would train conscripts or reservists to the front lines, a decision one Western intelligence official compared to eating the seed corn. Russia’s Shortfalls Create an Opportunity for Ukraine, Western Officials Say 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Monsanto now sets the prices for most of the nation's seed corn. What's really driving inflation? Corporate power 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z And when you eat your seed corn, you have nothing left to plant next year. Ultimate all-American slush fund: Budget loophole could send Pentagon spending soaring even higher 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z “It proves the adage that basic science is the seed corn of societal impact.” Covid Vaccine Pioneers and Others Win 2021 Lasker Awards in Medicine 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The farmers cite the price of seed corn, which rose by 300% over the last 20 years while corn yields increased by roughly 34%, according to the lawsuit. Farmers file antitrust lawsuit against big ag companies 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z But AltEn has been under scrutiny since 2015, when the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy discovered it was using the pesticide-treated seed corn as its feedstock rather than normal field corn. Editorial Roundup: Nebraska 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Selling art from the collection to pay the bills is tantamount to eating the seed corn. Commentary: While the Met contemplates selling its treasured art, rich trustees sit idle 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Harvests for some specialty crops like seed corn and pumpkins are already underway. Farmers expect neither feast nor famine in 2020 harvests 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z The worry is that academic research — the seed corn of future breakthroughs — is being shortchanged. Universities and Tech Giants Back National Cloud Computing Project 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z He said classified work is “seed corn” for Raytheon, using an agricultural term that refers to saving part of one year’s harvest to seed the next one. Defense firms cash in on an ‘unprecedented’ wave of classified spending 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The complaint’s single heartening finding is that AltEn was the only ethanol plant in Nebraska and one of the two plants in the country using treated seed corn as an ethanol feedstock. Editorial Roundup: Nebraska 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Inside the machine shop at Chad Kneifl’s farm sat bags of seed corn and the planter, waiting for the fields to dry out so planting could begin. Newcastle priest blessing farmers’ fields at planting time 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z To put it in simple terms, it’s seed corn. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z He aimed his weapon at the tide, the tracers like wishes or seed corn you scattered away from yourself and that disappeared into someplace you couldn’t see. “Do Not Stop” 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Because it is politically expedient to sacrifice the future, which does not vote, to the consumption of government services by those who do, America is eating its seed corn. Opinion | America is sacrificing the future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The federal department projects the statewide production value of seeds to be $121 million this season with seed corn accounting for 95 percent of the value. Hawaii’s seed industry projected to fall in value 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “It is worrisome that they are eating the seed corn,” said Dan Weld, a computer science professor at the University of Washington. Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local Universities 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “Those are some of the best tools to fight the seed corn of identity politics,” he said. Analysis | Ryan’s contradiction: Talk inclusive politics but work with Trump 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z This both short-changes the students and starves the colleges themselves of the seed corn of their future faculty. Opinion | Higher Ed’s Low Moment 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z “If we just focus on the business end and don’t pay attention to the long-term seed corn of research, we’ll never grow into what we want to be,” he said. Opportunities for research increase with more rocket launches 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Requisitions proceeded at an entirely unrealistic level, absorbing what the peasants needed to survive the winter and even their seed corn for the next year. The deliberate starvation of millions in Ukraine 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z That allowed them to add popcorn, seed corn, potatoes and green beans to the typical corn and soybean production. Smith family has spent more than 50 years farming in Indiana 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z University and government laboratories will wither without sustained government funding; we will be eating our seed corn. Opinion | Government-funded research plants seeds for innovation 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z We must always invest in ourselves if we expect others to do the same, and it is well-established that infrastructure and education are the “seed corn” of economic development, growth, and prosperity for our citizens. Text of Democratic response to SC State of the State speech 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z “The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It’s a national security priority,” he says. Special series: Meet three new members of Congress with links to research, and a science ally who is leaving 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “Research is the seed corn for an innovation economy, and ending federal investment in R&D would be a disaster for Texas Tech and for the country,” he told the audience. Special series: Meet new members of Congress with connections to research, and a science ally who is leaving 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Not sure about the whole seed corn thing I have seen a couple of times in the comments - farmers have not used seed corn in decades - as any real farmer knows. What 12 State Schools Are Cutting, or Creating 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z But “R&D is like your seed corn,” he said. R&D Spending Is a Rare Bright Spot in Business Investment 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Americans not supporting education is equivalent to farmers eating their seed corn. Public Colleges Chase Out-of-State Students, and Tuition 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z "There is an old-time expression to characterize what is happening here: eating the seed corn," wrote Berger. NASA Won't Get Us to Mars 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z In lobbying for short-term share-boosting management, finance is also largely responsible for the drastic cutback in research-and-development outlays in corporate America, investments that are seed corn for future prosperity. American Capitalism’s Great Crisis 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In the information age, cuts to education is the equivalent of eating your seed corn. What 12 State Schools Are Cutting, or Creating 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z They just hope that the lean years don’t turn into a famine, and that there’s enough seed corn left over for sweet if stressed fruit. Paul McCartney’s Magnificent Melodic Gift 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Americans not supporting education is equivalent to farmers eating their seed corn. Public Colleges Chase Out-of-State Students, and Tuition 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z That move would be the oil industry equivalent of eating the seed corn. Russia, Light on Cash, Weighs Risks of a Heavy Tax on Oil Giants 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z In some years, the corn may be popcorn, seed corn or food-grade corn, and the beans may be black turtle beans or clear-hilum soybeans for tofu or soy milk. EXCHANGE: Danforth organic farmer wins sustainable ag award 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z At first the incidents were limited to the large seed corn plantations on Kauai’s west side, Ornellas said, but in recent years they’ve been raiding trees on the island’s eastern shore. Rising parakeet population imperils farms, native plants 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Documents distributed by the Iowa Economic Development Authority indicate Monsanto planned to build a $90 million seed corn plant in Independence, creating 47 jobs. Monsanto, Pioneer relinquish job creation tax credits 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z With his courage, he laid the seed corn that gave birth to today’s investigations. FIFA Charges Have Ring of Familiarity 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Once it’s ready, the same fields are used to raise seed corn, which is sent to contract farms on the mainland. Pesticides in paradise: Hawaii's spike in birth defects puts focus on GM crops 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Clinton, in other words, is eating the seed corn of tax reform. The Clintons Don't Care About Tax Reform -- And Neither Does Anyone Else 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The birds wait until fruit or seed corn is ripe, “then they peel it open and eat it,” Kaiakapu said. Rising parakeet population imperils farms, native plants 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Dissatisfaction is the seed corn for change and revolution. Medicine's Velvet Revolution 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “Our seed corn for the future is being invested somewhere else.” End to U.S. Taxation of Overseas Profit Finds Bipartisan Support 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The great research universities such as Harvard would be the first beneficiaries of the seed corn that results from such a program. The Next Great American Scientists Will Not Graduate From Harvard 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But selling one’s seed corn usually bodes ill for the medium term future, which should explain why the government is trying to find investors in its oil fields. Desperate Venezuela (1): The Crash In Revenues 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “In effect, he oversaw Texas eating its seed corn,” he said. What Texas’ Economy Means for Rick Perry’s Presidential Ambitions 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet Washington’s been cutting funding for public R&D. Just as at a private company, the next American president should remind legislators not to eat the seed corn. What it would really take to run the government like a business 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z “I’ve told broadcasters: Your spectrum is your seed corn,” said Gordon H. Smith, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, which is holding the conference, and a former Republican senator from Oregon. Local Broadcasters Could Reap Billions in Airwaves Auction 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z One answer to that question: Small liberal arts colleges, which already provide a disproportionate share of the “seed corn” of students for graduate and post-graduate science. The Next Great American Scientists Will Not Graduate From Harvard 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It is possible that Citi is already shrinking too much, consuming the seed corn that will produce profits later on, speculates Charles Peabody, an analyst with Portales Partners. Citi never reaps 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z In Tanzania, site-specific seed corn has been made available and is already changing lives. What the Gates Foundation Has Achieved, 15 Years On 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Even shareholders are getting concerned because, without investment, companies are eating the seed corn, which is a rural colloquialism for the present consumption of that which is meant to ensure future prosperity. Robert Reich Is Right: Higher Wages Aren't Coming Back, And Here's Why 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z We are eating seed corn but not laying the groundwork for the next great technological revolutions. Fareed Zakaria: American innovation is in trouble 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Will this seed corn of science—produced by small classes, intense mentoring experiences, and hands-on research opportunities at small liberal arts colleges—be there in the years to come? The Next Great American Scientists Will Not Graduate From Harvard 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z IBM is an enigma, for years an earnings superstar yet more recently suffering consistent sales declines and a string of asset sales that smack of selling its seed corn to look successful. Death Of The (IBM) Salesman 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Mo is one of seven people connected to Chinese agriculture biotechnology company DBN Group who prosecutors say stole patented seed corn to try to reproduce its traits. Chinese woman seeks December trade secrets trial 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z He and family members, including his father, run a farm of 4,000 acres and grow soybeans, green beans and seed corn. A look at the candidates for House leadership 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z He eats 25 of them, ploughs 48 back into the field as seed corn for next year’s harvest and lends two to a neighbouring farm. On cloud nine trillion 2014-03-27T04:00:00Z Most seriously, she writes, G.D.P. tells us nothing about whether we are eating our seed corn. Off the Shelf: An Economic Gauge, Imperfect but Vital 2014-04-05T14:39:51Z "Corn is a big problem. It is really really difficult to produce seed corn that would meet the current non-GMO verified label." U.S. food companies find going 'non-GMO' no easy feat 2014-02-18T16:32:26Z Department of Agriculture, Genetically modified food, , , A farmer fills his planters with seed corn using a leading Monsanto brand. Unapproved genetically modified Monsanto wheat found in Oregon 2013-05-31T15:34:00Z On top of this, you’re spending the money you need to grow — eating your seed corn, so to speak. 10 Biggest 401(k) Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them 2013-04-10T18:14:43Z He warns against “eating our seed corn” by cutting education, and he says, “Europe needs less austerity and more reform” to liberalize its labor markets and encourage innovation. To grow, should U.S. look to Third World? 2013-03-26T16:17:00Z Kernels of seed corn sit in a tray after being tested inside a Monsanto lab in the US. It is hard to trust GM when it is in the grip of a few global giants 2013-02-03T00:05:59Z Investment is the seed corn of growth, so the consequences are potentially ominous. Analysis: Puzzle of weak investment jeopardizes growth rebound 2012-12-27T11:23:25Z Infrastructure, job training and basic scientific research are the country’s seed corn — the spending that allows us to be more productive and prosperous in the future. Economic View: Budget Showdown Offers an Opportunity for Progress 2012-11-10T20:52:32Z There's no ant to beg food from, so we do what we have to - rob our children of their seed corn. The aughts: Should we be grateful for the Bush deficits? 2012-10-16T16:06:28Z Tim would be fined for my mistake; the seed corn, probably. Without 2012-09-19T17:21:45.707Z Manufacturing is the seed corn for other jobs in the U.S. Q&A: Peter Navarro on America's Death by China 2012-08-22T20:24:32Z “Cutting these programs is like eating our seed corn.” Female Factor: Fighting for Economic Equality 2012-06-29T06:15:22Z Subscriber, Decatur, Ill.—In testing seed corn, what per cent must sprout to be called first-class. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z Cutting aid to low-income students would be a form of eating our own seed corn. Guest post: Cutting student aid like ?eating our own seed corn? 2011-11-22T15:17:00Z Mr. Rohatyn also became a spokesman for urban America, and a social democratic vision in which government sows the seed corn of economic revival. Gotham: Michael R. Bloomberg Says Some Protesters? Issues Are Unfounded 2011-11-08T04:00:15Z Another field planted for seed corn was expected to yield nothing and Eyer said he would claim insurance for it. Insight: Chasing high corn prices, U.S. farmers skip rotations 2011-09-26T01:15:00.247Z How much help have the Swiss sent us in succor, in money, in clothing, in food, in seed corn, for our poor fellow-countrymen ruined by the war! The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z “Seed corn, mother,” said Portlock, grimly; “seed corn for Cyril Mallow to sow; but hang me, old lady, if I believe it will ever come to a crop.” Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z From farm to farm Rode daily, kept the books, bred cattle, sheep, Raised seed corn, tried the secrets of DeVries, And Burbank in plant breeding. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z On Teesside this week I found encouraging examples of it – but also the painful interdependence of the two sectors, for skills training, for investment seed corn, for customers. Budget 2011: It's going to be a bad day for most of us 2011-03-23T11:43:21Z "When are we going to learn that we need to stop eating our seed corn?" he said in a statement. Federal agriculture, education programs among first to face budget cuts 2011-03-03T01:25:00Z But good business leaders preserve spending on research and development because eating one's seed corn is self-defeating. Mary Meeker's Rescue Plan for USA Inc. 2011-02-24T13:00:00Z Harking back to his farming roots in northeast Oregon, he says spectrum is the "seed corn" of television stations. Ex-senator Gordon Smith now represents broadcasters as voice for free, local TV 2011-02-12T20:10:05Z Billowing fields of richest brown, where the ploughshare had made ready a bed for the seed corn and the hemp. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z It’s like a farmer eating his seed corn. In California, a Proposed Cut Angers Local Officials 2011-01-29T23:07:41Z We need to think about making investments for the future as opposed to simply spending our seed corn on current needs. Bernanke testifies to Senate Budget panel 2011-01-07T15:37:31Z Colds do not turn into any of these diseases, for each of them comes from its own germ, just as corn comes only from seed corn. Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics The list of donations includes many valuable articles not above given, consisting of garden seeds, cotton seed, seed corn, clothing, &c. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874 Its Extent, Duration, and Effects Glasier, including all the mill gear, a quantity of seed corn, barley and garden seeds, some live stock and fowls, household utensils and provisions. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 With thirty volunteers he had set out south for the Mount Hope region itself, in order to gather seed corn. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women For planting, beside the seed contributed and the nine hundred bushels of Irish potatoes, were eighteen hundred bushels of Northern Flint seed corn. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work And this was told to us by the Te-hua men when we went for seed corn in that starving time, and were not sent away empty. The Flute of the Gods The winter of 1917-18 was severe and seed corn was unusually poor. The Farmer and His Community No Iowa farmer would buy seed corn now that grew in Kentucky, Kansas, or Missouri. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Now they needed staple provisions, a few farming tools, a breaking-plough, and some seed corn. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas But at the end of one year they were found to have neglected agricultural operations, to have wasted their seed corn, and to be thus destitute of all means of subsistence. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement The very seed corn had been devoured in the madness of hunger. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) As a result, the available supply of sound seed corn in the spring of 1918 was the lowest on record in the face of the greatest need for a bumper crop. The Farmer and His Community The only seed corn on which our farmers rely implicitly is that which they have gathered before frost came and hung up near the fire to be thoroughly dried before it froze. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside In concept the seed corn has the same value as the spermatozoon. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts To the temple came the poor farmer to borrow seed corn or supplies for harvesters, &c.—advances which he repaid without interest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" A shipment of seed corn for planting, and even a stinted amount for feed, had been sent from the East in March. The Wind Before the Dawn Raymond Simms was dimly conscious of a change in Newton since the day when they met and helped select Colonel Woodruff’s next year’s seed corn. The Brown Mouse Probably nineteen farmers in twenty must buy seed corn for next spring's planting, on account of the failure of the '83 crop to ripen. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside They found, for instance, that if you pick seed corn carefully, you get a better crop than if you are careless in seed selection. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) The landlord found land, labour, oxen for ploughing and working the watering-machines, carting, threshing or other implements, seed corn, rations for the workmen and fodder for the cattle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" In order to sufficiently nourish 47 the teams which must be used in seeding, Josiah Farnshaw had been obliged to use a part of his seed corn for feed. The Wind Before the Dawn Most of them had brought seed corn and a good-sized corn show was on view. The Brown Mouse He had hurt his thumb shelling seed corn, and his mother had made him a clean thumb-stall for Sabbath. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories Last fall papa saved his seed corn, selecting it very carefully, and hung it up in the granary to dry. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Some day the principles of selected and controlled parentage underlying hybrid vigor may be utilized in producing superior nuts, as these principals are now so widely used in producing hybrid seed corn. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 Mrs. Armstrong had some money left, and she told me to take it and send for supplies and seed corn. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite On this loft there is a bin for storing the good corn intended for meal, and mouse-proof boxes for preserving seed corn on the ear until planting time. The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy A white pitcher with a broken nose, a row of bottles, a bunch of seed corn with the husks braided together and hung on a nail, an old coat on another nail. Marcia Schuyler “We have never taken the thing seriously here before,” explained a farmer who had left his work in mid-afternoon and come in to teach the boys of a school how to judge seed corn. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Fishing tackle, a cupping apparatus, a set of engineering instruments, half a dozen ears of extra fine seed corn, medicine scales, and a huge cotton stock filled the rest of the bookcase. Plantation Sketches The crops languished in the field, some already dead, and the scanty store saved from the seed corn quite gone. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims Talking about corn for fowls reminds me that the agricultural papers are full of wails from farmers who were taken in last season on seed corn. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside If the supply of young cattle was large or the wood-lot furnished more firewood than was needed, the product was bartered for seed corn or hay. Society Its Origin and Development In every school hangs a string of seed corn which is brought in by the boys in the fall, dried during the winter, and in the spring tested for fertility. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) "Old Mr. Crow claims that you are eating Farmer Green's seed corn out of the hills," Mrs. Robin said. The Tale of Grandfather Mole In addition to enlarging the yield of corn, you can, by proper selection of the best and most productive plants in the field, grow a new variety of seed corn. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition I thought last year that my seed corn was poor and run out, so I went to Chicago and got Sibley's "Pride of the North," but that was no better. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Mixing seed corn with tar so as to coat it will prevent crows from pulling it up at planting time. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Who else like you Could sift the seed corn from our chaff, And make us, with the pen we knew, Deathless at least in epitaph?” The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 He thinks I've been eating the seed corn that Farmer Green planted. The Tale of Grandfather Mole She let them have the use of the farm tools and mules; she put up the cotton and seed corn and food for us. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 If you will help me, I'll give you a peck of that Golden Bantam seed corn you like so much the next time you are in town.' Billy Whiskers' Adventures There are, of course, some rolls of bedding and clothing, a few cooking utensils, a few packages of salt and seed corn, and a flask or two of medicine. Stories of Later American History He roused them by saying that American institutions were the fruit of English ideas, and that the fruit of American liberty was from seed corn that was English. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict He boasted that he had been eating the seed corn out of the hills. The Tale of Grandfather Mole Is there an underground irrigation that moistens the soil, they have searched it out and thrust their seed corn into its fertile depths. I Married a Ranger The August frost put our corn out of business, so we are around with long fingers trying to steal seed corn. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 I have promised some neighbours to bring back a little seed corn for them, some of the best English wheat without beard. Letters from Egypt It is an interesting and important truth to know at this time that an unexpected source for seed corn has been discovered here at home. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside The way to do is to advertise the seed corn in the regular way, giving as references such men as the postmaster, justice of the peace, banker, etc., as may be most convincing and convenient. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside And he gave orders for seven ships' cargoes of seed corn and fifty of poppers. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Accompanied by slaves bearing presents of food, seed corn for the spring planting and pelts of deer and bear and wildcat, Pocahontas was received at Jamestown with much ceremonial. The Princess Pocahontas I was told that people from the Hot Country come to gather it, each taking away about one almud to mix with their seed corn. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Several parties have written me—one from Missouri, another from Indiana, and a third from Kentucky, that they have seed corn for sale, cheap and in quantity. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside One feature of corn-growing in 1883 should prove a lesson to the farmers of the country; that is, the general use of seed corn in the West, grown in lower latitudes. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside When he came to fetch the seed corn he found me sitting alone, and he spake words of love to me, and he told me to tie up my hair. The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Distributing 1000 bushels of seed corn among 383 farmers, twenty-two tons of nitrate of soda at cost among sixty-two farmers, and securing and distributing six tons of sugar to fifty beekeepers for wintering bees. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Of size there exists a considerable variety, from Zea Curagua of Chili, and the Egyptian or chicken corn, both extremely diminutive, to the large white flint, and ground seed corn of the United States. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The seed corn does not sprout, but rots, if the ground is cold and wet. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader But how can a man hope for harvests, when all his seed corn has been destroyed? The Redemption of David Corson And he said to her, "Get up and give me some seed corn that I may hurry back to the fields, for Anpu ordered me not to loiter on the way." The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians The exhibition of a novel type of rack for curing seed corn gave a writer a subject for an article on this "corn tree," which was published in the Illustrated World. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers It will never do to carry seed corn from South to North, as it will not mature in a higher or colder climate than that from which it has been taken. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. At every point where these furrows cross, the farmer drops from four to seven grains of seed corn. McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader The flesh of the animal was often mixed with the seed corn or buried in the fields to promote fertility. The Religion of the Ancient Celts But there was another seed corn dropped at this time in his mind, and that is the immense utility of woman in the work of regenerating society. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist That fall the boys made very careful selection of seed corn. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Here their descendants have remained ever since, keeping themselves apart, like seed corn, to repeople the city with the genuine breed, whenever it shall be effectually recovered from its intruders. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete These four red kernels were mixed with the ordinary seed corn, that it might be vivified by them and made to yield an ample harvest. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs The Company was to teach each boy a trade and when his freedom year arrived was to give to each one fifty acres, a cow, some seed corn, tools, and firearms. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia You had better in future take out the seed corn with you and then you won’t have to call to me; if you do I shall answer you as I did to-day.” Folklore of the Santal Parganas He was to select his seed corn after a few suggestions given him by The Chief. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. By a striking metaphor capital is often described as the seed corn of industry. International Finance In this ceremony is preserved a trace of the far-away time when all the precious seed corn was in the care of priestly keepers. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs He says I must not do anything that is too hard for me, but I am going to drop seed corn. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 By giving a chattel mortgage on their growing wheat, they borrowed enough, at twenty per cent, to buy seed corn and a plow. Dust All the boys but Jack and Myron tested their seed corn to be sure of its vitality. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. If the whole world's crop were eaten, there would be no seed corn and no harvest. International Finance He said two coats and twenty shillings in money, and half a bushel of seed corn, and some tobacco. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson "You want some seed corn!" he announced rather than asked. The Cruise of the Jasper B. Well, Martin," he added, genially, as Wade signed his name, "it's a long day since you came in with your father to make that first loan to buy seed corn. Dust Take an ear of seed corn, notice the small and rather undersized kernels at the top; do not use these. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Having finished the task of preparing the ground, the woman takes down her seed corn which has by this time sprouted. Myths and Legends of the Sioux When the seed corn goes into the ground it dies," said the Corn Woman; "the tribe might die also if it never came alive again. The Trail Book One chief offered to loan the settlers seed corn and wheat. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert Mr. Pratt stated that he had used coal tar on his seed corn for five or six years, and had never a spear pulled by the crows. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 We have plenty of seed corn, so I shall not have to buy any. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. In the summer I brought the stick into the house, and put it in the dry, warm storeroom over the kitchen where I keep my seed corn. Adventures in Contentment For no matter how hungry the people may become the seed corn must not be eaten. The Trail Book I brought down my seed corn from the attic, where it had hung waiting all winter, each ear suspended separately by the white, up-turned husks. Adventures in Friendship For the same reason, in many parts of Germany, a few nuts are mingled with the seed corn to insure its being prolific. The Folk-lore of Plants But surely you can make some pretty good selections for seed corn. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. And Johnnie could remember the other children teasing her and saying that her folks had to load a gun with seed corn and shoot it into the sky to reach their fields. The Power and the Glory I always admired the 'Arabian Nights,' because the stories contained in that work hang together so like a string of onions, or a braid of seed corn. Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod In his pocket he had ten dollars—ample seed corn, he believed, for a golden harvest. Barriers Burned Away After this was done, Joe Williams fixed up a lot of wire racks to take care of his seed corn, and carefully winnowed out his prize oats for good fertile seed. Hidden Treasure When an early frost and severe winter in 1917-18 destroyed much of the seed corn, the Governor uncovered instances of profiteering and immediately stopped it by vigorous action. The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox I asked a very aged Indian where they got their seed corn, but he did not know, saying they had raised it ever since he could remember. Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West We cannot give a complete refutation of the impression that Eastern seed corn does not yield well the first season in California. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered His thoughts were the seed corn of systems. Starr King in California Don't you think, Uncle Joe, we should leave a small section of the best of it standing, say three or four acres, for seed corn? Hidden Treasure Some of our Virginia farmers have sent to Illinois for their seed corn," said Mr. West; "and they report very good results as a rule, especially on land that has been kept up. The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, First of all she persuaded the women of the country to roast the seed corn secretly before it was committed to the ground. The Golden Bough In here was, perchance, at the deserted settlement some remnant of seed corn that, planted, would give him bread. For the Term of His Natural Life The fruit head, or ears, of the maize is said to be plucked off the stalks in the fields as the American farmer gathers green corn or seed corn. The Bontoc Igorot We could get $5 a bushel next spring for good seed corn, besides having our own. Hidden Treasure "Well, there may be something in that," responded Mr. West, "but the western seed corn certainly looks fine." The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, VIRGIL, on the selection of seed corn. -of cattle and sheep. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 In every enterprise, the crop presupposes labor and seed corn. The French Revolution - Volume 3 A lot of people think that," said she, "and often Miner is charged with destroying growing crops, eating seed corn, etc. The Burgess Animal Book for Children Hiram had got his seed corn for the upland piece of the man who raised the best corn in the community. Hiram the Young Farmer Our farmers have made marked improvement in seed corn; they also understand very well how to grow corn. The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, I suspect that Danny Meadow Mouse or one of his cousins could explain who ate the seed corn and the young plants. The Burgess Animal Book for Children |
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