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...R. H. Taylor Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA R. H. TAYLOR Furman University BY 1840 the opinion was commonly shared by the informed planters of South Carolina that the system of agriculture in general use was proving increasingly ruinous...

...David A. Ellison; Isabel Karpin Although in vitro fertilization patients faced with the problem of surplus cryopreserved embryos have a number of disposition options, we focus on one procedure known as “compassionate transfer.” In this scenario the thawed embryo is placed in the patient's vagina...

... creativity of the revolutionary period fertilized anarchist imaginations for many generations to come, while the ascendency of the Bolsheviks left a lasting legacy about the dangers of the wrong kind of revolution. Later anarchist revolutionary practices in Spain, along with steadfast activism on behalf...

...Helena Silvestre; Verónica Gago; Marta Malo; Liz Mason-Deese This text seeks to describe the territories of the favelas as a fertile ground for the birth of organizational forms that can strengthen struggles toward an emancipated society, in which life is free. It aims to trace the trajectory...

... rooted in secularist (and largely atheist) assumptions. Our contention is that these emerging discourses could benefit from some cross-fertilization. “Global Christianity, Global Critique” is an attempt to start a conversation toward this end, bringing together essays by social scientists who study...

... nation-building and of the Fascist population politics. After the violent reconquest of Libya (1922–32) and the appropriation of all its fertile land, the Fascist regime turned to the rich and restless social fabric of the Italian South, which became the target for a new politics of space and population...

..., and fades or tapers out near the Ten­ nessee line. In its length of nearly a thousand miles this belt naturally exhibits some variations. Generally speaking, it is more sandy eastward and more clayey westward, with corresponding dif­ ferences in fertility, and this difference is reflected in the vege­...

... of commercial fertilizer. But the Dark Corner never troubled to acquaint the world outside with these facts, and few outsiders ever interested themselves in the Dark Corner. Midland, its financial center, was like any other cross­ roads hamlet in the South. In addition to the bank, it had four stores, a barber...

... information exists on the population of that country. Moreover the word demog­ raphy, for the purpose of this book, is restricted to a study of fertility, mortality, age-structure, nuptiality, and population growth, and does not extend to a consideration of migration and urbanization. The importance...

... virility is reflected in the blight which is vis­ ited upon his land. According to Miss Weston, this legend, which has its roots in fertility rituals, becomes associated in the Middle Ages with the growing body of Arthurian materials, and the Cup and Lance of the older legend (both of which are patently...

...-oil mills, a fair valuation placed upon cottonseed was 10 cents a bushel, or $6.00 a ton, and not very much was sold even at that price. It was returned to the cotton field as a fertilizer, where the land needed replenishing, or was less profitably disposed of. The aver­ age price paid the producer...

..., but there is a surprisingly large range between the highest and lowest fertility rates of districts. In Katanga Province the population was showing a rate of natural increase of 3 per cent per annum in 1956, but in parts of Orientale Province the birth rate was so low that the population was not growing at all. In Guinea...

... mous value of cottonseed as a fertilizer, we have not yet come to a proper appreciation of their value as a feed also for in fact we may feed them and still get three-fourths of their fer­ tilizing value in the manure from the animals. How unusu­ ally nutritious they are as a food may be guessed from...

... spoken of as the rich­ est farming state in the Union. While portions of North Carolina have been cultivated for more than two hundred years, Iowa s deep prairie soil is still almost virgin and amaz­ ingly fertile. Up in the North woods in the mating season it is said that a gigantic he-bear will find...

... to administer our natural resources as to leave them in such condition that our posterity can live in comfort and make indefinite progress. We should remember that our soil is rapidly losing its fertility, and that in the older states are to be found thousands of aban­ doned farms. Soils, virgin but yesterday...

... cotton from sheer inertia. They had always grown cotton. They understood how to do it and they were reluc­ tant to break into new lines of cultivation.8 The cost of cotton production was enhanced as the soil became exhausted by the fact that no crop could be made without the use of fertilizers...

..., Palestine is metaphorized as a woman. The dependence of the Palestinian peasant soci- ety on the fertility of ‘‘Mother Earth’’ no doubt encourages the use of such 16 a metaphor...

... improvements on farms where they temporarily find them­ selves. In fact, they rarely have a legal right to compensation for improvements they may make in soil fertility, fences, roads, ditches, drains, terraces, water supply, and the like. It is not surprising, then, that many tenants not only make no effort...

... of American institutions, the choice between civiliza­ tion and liberty, though certain to come, was deferred by a physical cause. As long as you have a boundless extent of fertile and unoccupied land, your laboring population will be far more at ease than the laboring population of the Old World, and, while...

.../ Memory and desire. . . . Omar recalls the healing powers of Jesus, but the Protagonist s thoughts are much more complex. He mixes a personal memory with that of a friend. Her confusion and fear recall lines from the Bible plus hints of fertility myths in which are accounts of dead gods being dug up...