Word: cornes
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...Hampshire hogs, waiting at row on row of troughs to be fed. In the barn. North stepped up to an instrument panel as intricate as a ship's, began pushing buttons and pulling switches. All around, the barn came to vibrant life. From one silo dropped ground corn, from another silage, from a third shelled corn...
...near Brookston (pop. 1,100), in northwest Indiana, North started in field work at the age of seven, the year after his mother died. His father bolted a box to a harrow, and North, riding in the box. drove the team. His father followed, driving another team pulling a corn planter...
...cost of farm programs, which had averaged $1.5 billion a year in 1950-52; but in 1956-58, Agriculture Department outgo averaged $4.5 billion a year, and in the current fiscal year the total is estimated at a shocking $7 billion. The Federal Government's inventory of wheat, corn, cotton and other surplus farm commodities recently climbed to a new peak of $9 billion. And out in the wheat and corn belts, the soil is heavy with stored up moisture, hinting at bumper crops that may mock Benson's hopes of holding farm-program outlays to $6 billion...
...scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco), and Minnesota's Humphrey is working on a broader farm bill that will include some Brannan direct payment gimmicks...
...Fair Lady, with inimitable charm, The Music Man, with glorious corn, and West Side Story, with riotous drama, add up to a memorable trio of musicals...