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Several times during the week, white-tailed deer ventured in from the hills and copses, were sighted on the edge of the farmland. Muskrats and raccoons invaded the property, too, in search of winter provender. In the gracious house, the lamps were snapped on earlier each day in salute to the sudden evenings, and open fires on the hearth provided a warm welcome after a walk in the frosty outdoors. In the great stone barn there was a steamy, cozy air of expectancy; several of the cows were freshening, and soon the herd of Aberdeen Angus, Holsteins and Brown Swiss...
Although national farm income has been dropping, U.S. farmers-as of fall. 1955-are still generally prosperous. Farmland values have increased 5% in the past year and show no signs of slump. Farm debts are at record-low levels; seven out of ten farms are free of mortgage; the ratio of debts to assets is only 11%, compared to 19% in 1940. Viewing that part of the picture last week, Ezra Benson could say with a clear Mormon conscience: "The facts are that American agriculture is in sound financial condition...
...increase is man's war on wolves, coyotes and wildcats, the deer's most destructive natural enemies. Another is the deer's adjustment to civilization. They seem to browse and thrive better in the thickets and brush at the edges of cities and cleared farmland than in dense forest. Deer have been shot by New York and New Jersey hunters within sight of Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...Oysters. In his lively chronicle The Age and Stage of Harrigan and Hart, Author E. J. (for Ely Jacques) Kahn Jr. (The Army Life) loses no chance to digress on the New York of the '70s and '80s, when the city had open farmland, picnickers rode barges to Coney Island, and 300 Episcopal delegates on a three-week convention put away 80,000 oysters. Part biography, part social comedy, Author Kahn's book is a diverting and nostalgic nosegay thrown to the past Manhattan's lower East Side was so strongly Irish when Edward Green Harrigan...
...equipped and the unwary, the desert can still be a savage and treacherous foe. But to the man who comes to the desert with caution and respect, the forbidding area has much to offer: fabulous mineral riches, water so pure that it tastes like distilled water, incredibly fertile farmland and a growing season 365 days long. Above all, the desert offers the restless migrants from city stress a combination of peace, solitude and a fresh start on a new frontier. "There are three ways of life now," says Indio (Calif.) Publisher Ole Nordland. "The city, the farm and the desert...