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...land where the U.S. grows its food and fiber, the majestic checkerboard of spring was beginning to form. The plains and rolling hills of Illinois and Iowa, where farmers were turning the soil for this year's crop of corn, were a geometric pattern of black and brown and green. On to the West and South, through Kansas and into Texas, the spreading, endless fields of wheat were coming green and beginning to ripple softly in the wind. In the Deep South, across the bottom of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, green shoots were peeking out of the ridges...
...supports only encouraged production for the Government's bins. As of last week, the Commodity Credit Corp. had more than $9 billion of U.S. taxpayers' money (equal to the total U.S. budget of 1940) invested in surplus crops and crop loans, the bulk of it in wheat, corn and cotton...
...left his job in the John Deere Wagon Works in Moline, Ill., bucked the course of the farm revolution, and went back to the farm. He is in trouble. Twice in 1955 he had to sell his hogs before they were ready for market because he ran out of corn and could not afford any more. His luck on cattle was no better...
Gross' studies of community-school relations in New England have raised considerable interest. When at Iowa State College, he made studies of farm areas and of the farmer's acceptance of new technological developments, such as hybrid corn...
...handshake and something homespun. However, there are some of us who live with grass, dandelions and pigweed, who drive second-hand Chevvies and read such unintellectual things as TIME magazine, but think that Stevenson is terrific and wish Kefauver would go stick his head in a bucket of the corn he's been slinging around the country. WILLIAM D. NICHOLSON New Castle...