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...irrigation, which has spread from a few thousand western acres in 1850 to some 30 million acres, sprawled over such eastern and southern states as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mississippi. To grow a bushel of corn by irrigation requires about 10,000 gallons of water; to grow a ton of alfalfa hay, about 200,000 gallons. At present irrigation soaks up about 100 billion gallons of water daily, almost half the water withdrawn by the entire nation...
...kids look just about the same as they did a quarter of a century ago. Spanky MacFarland is built close to the ground, but always rises to an occasion. Alfalfa is wistful, but his cowlick won't stay put. Doe-eyed Farina has his black hair up in curlers, but is headed for trouble. Golden-haired Baby Jean is fickle: she generally falls for the kid with the shiniest fire engine. All of them get in and out of the same old scrapes, baffle grownups and outsiders, and always have ready answers to teacher's questions ("What...
Swinging down and down to a jolting thud on a field of green alfalfa, Parson Von Norman thought of the 23rd Psalm: "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." Pilot Wilson jumped too, and the empty plane crashed. On the ground the men gathered, bruised and nervous. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," someone said. Later, reporters asked the shaken clergymen how they had felt, faced by a moment that often brings even the most hardened sinners to repentance. One of them answered for all. "There was plenty of prayer going on," he said...
...Alfalfa-seed tea, long a favorite home "remedy" for arthritis and diabetes, not only lacks curative powers, but may give the user severe skin eruptions. So reported Dr. William H. Kaufman, after a study of six skin cases in Roanoke, Va. He added that such skin ailments may be hard to diagnose, since most alfalfa-tea enthusiasts are ashamed to admit that they drink the brew...
Land & Water. The valley of the Snake has become one of Idaho's richest farm areas; along a 200-mile stretch of the river, business is brisk, and crops (beets, potatoes, alfalfa, produce) grow green. Water made the difference. Teddy Roosevelt's 1902 Reclamation Act brought the water; since then, the U.S. Reclamation Bureau has built a $25 million complex of dams and canals (repayable from water and power revenue) to irrigate a million acres. Another homesteading project developed when, in 1947, a well digger struck a great underground river...