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...illiterate farmers, some of whom still live in a barter economy where 2 Ibs. of hand-picked wild coffee will fetch one fingernail's worth of nail polish. As a result of these feudal economics, 180 million acres of the world's richest farm land lie fallow in Ethiopia, despite periodic famines and a growing trade deficit. Foreign aid at best merely sugarcoats Ethiopia's deep-seated economic woes...
What saved the crops was the fact that many farmers wisely retired their dustiest fields to fallow. On their remaining acres, they used new chemical weed killers, planted drought-resistant strains whose roots went down 5 ft. to bring up moisture. By last week the victory was in sight: not only was the yield per acre good, but the wheat itself was rich in protein and sure to command top prices on world markets...
Speaking on "English Higher Education" at the final Thursday afternoon lecture last week, Halsey said that, like the feudal croplands, the English undergraduate sows during his first year, lies fallow the second and plows in the last...
...Dancing Eyebrow. For centuries, the Indian dance lay fallow in half-forgotten temples. But as India rose to national consciousness and independence, the art was deliberately revived by such devotees as Dancer...
Under the 1957 soil-bank law, any farmer who had 100 acres planted in wheat could put 25 acres into the soil bank and collect a payment for letting his land lie fallow, thus reducing the price-supported wheat crop. The law specifically prohibited him from planting those same acres with sorghum, also on the price-support list, in order to collect double payments. But the law said nothing about plowing up additional land not then under cultivation, and planting it with sorghum to make up the lost wheat acreage...