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...farmer now makes up only 7% of the nation's labor force, but he has more than compensated for his dwindling numbers. Advances in crop biology, fertilizers and the like have helped. But, in basic terms, it is the powerful, ingenious array of new machinery (see color pages) that has enabled the American farmer to harvest an un dreamed-of abundance...
...hour of farm labor produces more than six times as much as it did in 1920. Per-acre crop production is up by 80%. Output per breeding animal has doubled. In the 1960s alone, productivity of the average farm worker has increased by 6% a year v. only 3% for other workers. Total farm production, the Agriculture Department estimated last week, will set a new record this year (one result being lower grain prices on the nation's commodities market). With the average farm laborer producing enough food and fiber for 39 people, the American farmer not only overfeeds...
...Bumper Crop. The nation's 3,200,000 farms make up its No. 1 industry, with assets totaling $273 billion, a $20 billion chunk of it tied up in machinery so costly that, as Federal Reserve Bank Agricultural Economist Roby Sloan notes, "those without the managerial capacities, or who couldn't get financing, have had to move off the farm." As more marginal, hardscrabble farmers give up and flock to the cities, the spreads that remain are getting bigger. The average farm, just 175 acres back in 1940, now covers 359 acres, and will probably grow...
...gold pieces to washers and bent paper clips. They are planning, however, to change the size of their flip-top rings before the end of the year, at a cost they claim will run to millions of dollars. Until then, the police are resigned to garnering an ever-growing crop of flip-tops with a loss in revenue running into the tens of thousands...
...come. The radio, TV and press are stressing as an example of national sacrifice the hardships of the British during World War II, when each person got only one egg a week. Egyptians are now eating macaroni instead of rice, which is being exported to earn cash. The cotton crop is again badly infested by leaf worm, but because there is not enough money to buy insecticide, youngsters have been sent into the fields to pick the worm off the plants by hand. The tourist tide has dried, the guides at the pyramids and Sphinx sit playing trictrac (a variation...