Word: erving
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...country." Amid tales of urban blight, the U.S. may find solace in the enduring, seemingly endless reach of its fecund farmland. The nation is still sustained by the richest bounty of produce on earth, and it is sowing time again. TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick last week visited Erv Walters' farm in northern Illinois. His report...
...ERV WALTERS is an archetypal American farmer: rugged, sinewy, industrious and forthright. He has spent nearly every one of his 51 springs working the rich Midwest land. In 1941 he and his wife Lucille came to Illinois from their native Wisconsin with, as he proudly recalls, "nothing more than the clothes on our backs and $500 in cash." They have been remarkably successful. Together with his sons Dick, 28, and Dan, 24, Walters now owns 765 acres of prime farmland around the towns of Hebron and Woodstock; today the land is valued at more than $1,000 an acre. Three...