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Olive said that because of the strike the price of a daily and Sunday subscription through the end of the academic year will be reduced from $68 to $52.75. Daily subscriptions will cost $25.15 rather than the usual $32.05, and Sunday subscriptions will be reduced to $27.60 from...
...second-semester junior, who declared last June, spent all but two weekends since registration wooing votes. Campbell conducted a door-to-door compaign and enlisted 25 friends to help him write more than 1300 letters. In all, the campaign cost him $650--for stamps, bumperstickers and "beer to feed friends...
Enough food is left over to make the export capacity of American agriculture the hope of the have-not world. Farm-product exports tripled in the past six years to almost $27 billion, helping mightily to offset the cost of imports. The U.S. exports more wheat, corn and other coarse grains (barley, oats, sorghum) than all the rest of the world combined. Pat Benedict and farmers like him are America's best hope to counter the trade challenge presented by the oilmen of Araby and the energetic manufacturers of Japan. U.S. food exports would be higher still were...
...that each acre produces more crop." So, besides buying land, he has purchased so much machinery that it requires a football-field-sized yard just to park it. A partial inventory: four 15-ton trucks, three pickup trucks, seven tractors, three center-pivot irrigators and three wheat combines that cost $30,000 each, yet are used only about two weeks a year...
Says John Strickland, a veteran of 25 years of farming and service as a county agricultural agent in Georgia: "Four or five hundred acres is about the minimum farm from which a decent living can be made. Buying that much land would cost between $400,000 and half a million. No young man, no matter how much initiative and savvy he has and no matter how hard he is willing to work, is likely to be able to raise the capital needed...