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...SOMETHING WILD"-Stone, 48 East 86th. Three avant-gardians, each doing what he knows best. Apple Grower George Wardlaw sculpts and paints apples-green, delicious, crab, rotten and otherwise; ex-Mink Farmer Joseph Kurhajec makes fetishes of ferocity from blowtorched sheepskin, muskrat pelts, ram horns and chicken feathers; Rugmaker Dorothy Grebenak hand-weaves tapestries of U.S. Treasury bills, Con Edison manhole covers, even a nubby facsimile of a Gordon's gin label. Through...
...Year Families. Much of the muddlement of U.S. farm policies, argues Higbee, results from statistical fallacies. As the Agriculture Department reckons it, any grower of crops or raiser of livestock who has at least ten acres of land and markets at least $50 worth of farm goods a year counts as a "farmer." But that term includes everybody from the Southern mill hand who grows a field of cotton as a sideline, netting $70 a year on ten acres, to the Southwestern cotton baron who manages his empire from an air-conditioned office, netting $65,000 a year...
...accept or reject Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's drastic control program designed to cope with the wheat surplus (TIME cover, April 5). If two-thirds of those voting approve the plan, it will become mandatory for the entire 1964 wheat crop. The Agriculture Department will tell each wheat grower how many acres of wheat he can plant and how many bushels he can market under a complex "certificate" plan. And what does the farmer get out of it? A high support price of $2 a bushel on most of his wheat, plus "diversion payments'' on the acreage...
Flashy Stripes. To buy the film and use it costs $58 per acre, and savings in weed control average $12 per acre. At present prices for cotton, the grower would earn an extra $38 per acre by using film. Spencer Chemical Co. and Union Carbide, which manufacture the film and have developed the machines, are so certain that experience with plasticulture will bring even greater benefits that they are spending fortunes in research for the future. If this season's adventurous farmers from California to Texas harvest swollen crops, a good part of the 14,500,000 U.S. acres...
...California citrus grower, I am in a position to know that nowhere in the world is the consumer so thoroughly protected from harmful residual chemicals as in the U.S. A pox on authors who will pervert the truth for a few lousy bucks...