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Maybe some farmers are "riding the crest of the most prosperous wave in farming history." But there are still two and one-half million migrant farm families who toil and starve so the rest...
Next Question? In Washington, the Fish & Wildlife Service pondered a query that turned up in the mail: "How can I get help to open the overland cycle trade from the inland tide water of the Atlantic to the growth crest creedet of the Pacific? I discovered the oval location of growth...
...last week in Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock economy," had developed a symbol to tell the story. Bab-cock's "Unimal" is a queer creature with the face of a calf, the crest of a rooster, the forequarters of a sheep, the udder of a cow, the wings of a turkey and the hindquarters of a pig (see cut). The critter represents a composite of the kind of products farmers should raise more of and consumers should eat more...
Actually the average good farmer was still riding the crest of the most prosperous wave in farming history. His farmhouse was fresh-painted and stocked with all the comforts a city dweller could ask, his home freezer overflowed with the best to eat, he owned one or two cars, his barn now held a collection of the best and most valuable farm machinery in the world. His mortgage was paid up or well on the way to amortization, his children could look ahead to four years in a good college...
...sake of speed; and his mount, still fresh, bites at the rump of the other. But it is his weapons of offense that the fleeing man has dropped to lighten the load on his horse; the useless shield still hangs by his thigh. And his foundering horse, whose drooped crest, breaking pace and running nostrils show it in extremity, bears out with unmistakable pathos the difference between the fortunes of the riders...