Mockingbird Song
was conventional: he stuffed swine with corn in his own open-air feedlot. Then calamity led to innovation. An outbreak of hog ch ...
practice was banned in the United Kingdom in and will soon cease throughout the European Union.) Once weaned, farrows are c ...
tinuity to his dangerous ways. And he had carried a pistol (licensed in Los Angeles) throughout his postcombat years. Odd, then, ...
I am convinced that Christianity as practiced is an attenuated form of nature worship. —Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes, ...
to the world and the grain that waves most gloriously across North America still.^1 Between and the beginning of the twenty ...
meant, of course, no crop rotation and the abandonment of any pretense of ‘‘conservation farming.’’ Foreign purchases and govern ...
on their faces, across noses. The affected peasants also suffered severe diarrhea, lassitude, and melancholia. Dementia was comm ...
The world over pellagra has ever been an illness of the poor, both rural and urban, whose diets center on corn. Maize, whether l ...
perhaps also denied access to game meat from aristocrats’ forests and streams, may havealwayssuffered from pellagra. The disease ...
in Texas. He contracted but survived each of these diseases while earning a reputation for professional directness, modesty, pat ...
pill. All recovered in short time, and of course none contracted pellagra. Some doctors criticized the experiment: the volunteer ...
surance. Meanwhile, the course of pellagra in the South between the two world wars demonstrates the marginality of public health ...
raising commodity prices; so the -odd percent of farmland still under cul- tivation became too valuable to subdivide into gard ...
mon, too, and beloved, as were eggplant and okra. Partly because stoves did not become common in the region until after the Civi ...
were many more, minor and seasonal, foods of substance, too. On frontiers chickens fell prey to predators despite their capacity ...
lima. There were also velvet beans grown among the corn, most beloved by one of my grandmothers (born near Lake City, South ...
winter drives to markets. The fictional Forresters in Rawlings’sThe Year- lingmay illustrate a historical reality several ways. ...
invited rich and poor, black and white, outside. (The mountains’ longer and colder winters were much less encouraging, but lower ...
ing tree, with a view of a nearby apple tree. Beyond a screen of more trees were Wythe’s carriage house, a stable, and a big cor ...
might argue that all were conservationist in that, whether for ornamenta- tion or provisioning, gardens were created for permane ...
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