Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zealous Recruiter. For 20 years Iowa-born Poet Engle has fanned the thin flame of poetry down on the farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...
WHEN Congress last year created the soil bank, it hoped that by paying farmers to take land out of cultivation of price-supported crops a big bite would be taken out of farm surpluses. Both parties were so sure the bank was a good thing that they endorsed it in their platforms, even quarreled over who thought it up in the first place. A fortnight ago, as it appeared that the soil bank this year would cost more than $700 million, the House voted to eliminate $500 million in funds requested to operate the soil bank in 1958, in effect...
...some $260 million last year to farmers to take land out of production often after farmers had already tried to grow a crop on it and failed, either through natural causes such as drought, hailstorms or insect infestation, or by sheer neglect. To nobody's surprise, 1956 farm production set new records...
...bank is based on the charge that it is highly partial in whom it helps. Apart from the relatively unimportant conservation-reserve phase, the benefits are confined to producers of the five price-supported crops-wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco. Such crops account for only 23% of total farm income-leaving the producers of the other 77% totally outside the benefits of the price support or soil-bank pro grams. The soil bank has turned out to be a money bank for the corn belt and Great Plains wheat states, plus a few specialized cotton and tobacco districts, leaving...
...cleaned up soon, the bank was fast joining the list of discredited agricultural panaceas. For political reasons the Senate is almost certain to restore most of the cuts. The House will probably go along at some compromise figure, if for no other reason than to have some federal farm handout operating in the 1958 congressional election campaign...