Potash in North America (Turrentine, J. W.)

SOlt POTASH-POTASH INVESTIGATION-POTASH DEFICIENCIES

It is in this connection that it becomes very difficult at times for the agricultural scientist and practical agriculturist to meet on common ground, for very often a popular version of scientific reasoning may appear ambiguous, and in this case it would appear better to sacrifice the facile version (since the layman can always get an interpreter to explain if he is sufficiently interested) tha...

Admixture in North America

The history of North America has been marked by the encounter of populations from different continents. The discovery of the New World began a period defined by human migrations at a much larger scale than in previous history. This movement of people, voluntary or forced, changed profoundly the human landscape. As populations came into contact, admixture followed in varying degrees depending on...

Medicine in North America

Travel in North America

Phytophthora ramorum in North America

Two apparently unlinked events marked the beginning of one of the most devastating forest diseases known to man in recent times: Sudden Oak Death (SOD). In the mid 1990s, while a novel species of Phytophthora was being isolated from mildly diseased Rhododendron and Viburnum plants in German and Belgian nurseries, the first reports of inexplicable death of tanoaks (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) ...