Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn evening in 1932 when Candidate Franklin Roosevelt was scheduled to make his ''farm speech" in Topeka, Kans., one of Des Moines, Iowa's leading citizens had dinner with a group of friends. At the dinner Henry Wallace, the shockheaded editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, raised his fingers, ticked off one by one the things he would say if he were making a farm speech. When guests and host repaired to hear the candidate. Franklin Roosevelt raised his hand, ticked off practically the same things. Henry Wallace broke...
...Moines the Henry Wallaces were either renowned for their independence, or cussed for their stubbornness. Henry Wallace I, a Presbyterian preacher, launched Wallace's Farmer ("Good Farming. Clear Thinking. Right Living.") at the age of 60 despite the best professional opinion that it would fold in six months. In his 70s he told off Roosevelt I about Agriculture. Into his 80s, to half of Iowa, he was beloved "Uncle Henry." His son Henry Cantwell Wallace was a big, frail man who wore himself out as Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in jurisdictional disputes with Herbert Hoover...
...were Soil Conserver H. H. Bennett (Physical Land Use) and Chemist Henry G. Knight (Research & Technology). Closer than any of these to the Secretary is lean, loyal, Lincolnesque Under Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, a fellow alumnus of Iowa State College whose father used to read him Wallace's Farmer by kerosene lamp, with special emphasis on Uncle Henry's Sabbath School lessons...
More nostalgic than any memoir, however, is The Old Farmer's Almanac which last week made its 147th annual appearance. Published for the last two years by Little, Brown (is), it now lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Robert Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles, nor illustrates them by pictures of a sinister mother mixing gin with milk to pacify the baby...
...consults it for exact data, that it L; required reading in astronomy at Harvard and Smith. It went to 125,000 subscribers last year, many of them in cities. Says New Hampshire Governor Francis P. Murphy in a typical reader's testimonial: ". . . Just so long as The Old Farmer's Almanac keeps coming out regularly I shall be reminded that, after all, this world is in many ways the same old world that our fathers knew...