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...income is down 25% or 30% from last year," said Vernon McLeod, 33, who raises hogs, cattle, corn, wheat and oats on his 390 acres near Lyons, Mich. "But I'm not for 90% of parity. I'm for flexibility, something as close to supply and demand as you can get. I don't like artificial situations." Said Harold Umbaugh, 42, who has chickens, corn, wheat, oats, soybeans and hay on his 195 acres at New Paris, Ind.: "We farmers don't like to be on the dole. We like to make our own decisions...
...talk was faithfully preserved. As their 163 voting delegates, Farm Bureau members had sent mostly stable, successful farmers in their late 40s or beyond, who have plowed and planted through the depths of depression and the peaks of prosperity. Their keynoter was Farm Bureau President Charles Baker Shuman, a corn, cattle and soybean farmer from Sullivan, Ill. Shuman complained that farmers have been caught in "a serious cost-price squeeze," but went on to praise U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson as "a very conscientious man who is doing as good...
...gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through the Spanish moss on the oaks onto the dry palmettos below. Or the catfish, at his grandfather Brandon's farm, that stole his bait, sneaking off to its lair. Or how hot it was picking corn in the August...
CLINTON FOODS, which last year sold its Snow Crop frozen-food division to Minute Maid for $22.5 million (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954), has sold off the rest of its production facilities. For $58 million, Clinton sold its corn-processing (syrup, starch, animal feeds) and partition (food cases) business to Standard Brands...
Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...