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...still planting root crops in the dark of the moon, and above-the-ground crops when the moon was full. This practice, probably as old as agriculture, was supposed to steer the plants' efforts in the right direction. Elsewhere, farmers still believed that a silver coin in the churn would make butter come faster; that a storm was brewing when pigs ran around with sticks in their mouths, or when cats and rats played together after sundown...
...inevitable or feasible answer to every company's problems. But some such way, said Johnston, must be found to do the same thing throughout U.S. industry. He concluded: "Aggressive ambition on the part of the individual is the lifeblood of capitalism. The more of it we can churn into action, the better for us. The two systems of capitalism and socialism will compete throughout the world for the minds of men. The two systems are on trial. In the final analysis that system which provides the greatest benefit to the greatest number of individuals will...
...Iowa who churn butter from the state's 5,000,000-odd cows, the word oleomargarine induces not the scientific but the fighting temper. Last week, Iowa State College, which Hawkeyes proudly call a cow college, faced the consequences of having shared the butter-makers' feelings. The college was charged with having sidetracked a Rockefeller Foundation-supported study which said a good word for margarine. The American Association of University Professors threatened to investigate...
...landlord held him to his lease by telling him a story: Two little frogs fell into a churn full of cream. One swam around, got tired and decided he might as well drown. The other kept on swimming until he felt an island forming under him -an island of butter formed by his paddling. "Now," said the landlord, "do you want to be the little frog that gave up easily or will you be the one to keep on paddling and finally win out?" Adrian thought he would paddle...
...this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies in his fields, "that is the work of the devil. It is a work against God. . . . God never intended that farmers should butcher up land. You and other farmers have ruined a good hill farm." "Ignorant churn-headed fool!" he added, out of hearing. Old McDonald decided to spend the rest of his life reclaiming that ruined farm...