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They are the last of their ship to be hired, by the casually sadistic foreman of Stone Farm, which is both ironically and aptly named. Its holdings, bordering a wild, beautiful seacoast, are large and fertile; there is nothing stony about them. But its walled farmyard is like a prison; its heavy gates are locked each night, and workers are treated like convicts...
...dusty half-acre potato patch near the tiny (pop. 1,000) farming community of Tulelake, Calif., scientists in canary yellow overalls clambered aboard a tractor last week and began what looked like a workaday farmyard chore. They were planting ordinary potatoes, 2,000 tubers in all, that had been treated with an extraordinary additive: a genetically altered bacterium designed to inhibit the formation of frost. This experiment -- and a similar one performed only five days earlier -- marked a turning point in the efforts of scientists to apply the advances of recombinant DNA technology to agriculture: the first authorized release...
...leaner pigs, dairy cows that produce more milk, chickens that are resistant to infection and thus can be raised with fewer antibiotics. Though the Patent Office says it has about 15 applications for patents on genetically altered animals, important changes like these are probably ten years away from the farmyard. Says Wagner: "We need to breed, test and evaluate them in an agricultural setting...
...foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet. "A verse of his described an old farmyard and talked about 'weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.' Something in that language touched some secret storage of imagery that had been there, in my mind, since my childhood in the outback...
...life. She was his twin, a big handsome woman with a big freckled face, heavy underlike breasts, thick thighs, and a bottom that overflowed the edge of the chair when she had down... She was an earth girl, assiduous in bed and equally assiduous in the farmyard...