NEW CROPS FOR THE NEW WORLD

by Charles Morrow -- Ed. Wilson ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 24, 1945

Originally reported for May publication in issue of 4/1, as follows:- 14 career scientists write of crop experimentation, propagation, and possibilities for staple production. 16 articles that cover tropical fruit, maize, livestock, palm oil and waxes, rubber, , drugs, biological control of insect pests, forest resources, silks, bamboos, pepper, flowers, cane sugar, etc. The contributors include experts of various nationalitis, Honduran, Brazilian, Dutch as well as those of the U.S.A. -- drawn from governmental, commercial and educational fields. Significant starters for western hemisphere agriculture, these accounts give an importance to the development of future crops, previously imported from the East or ignored through ignorance. Interesting material, of specific use to scientific and agricultural schools and groups.

Pub Date: July 24, 1945

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1945

Categories: NONFICTION