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Phase Outs. Harder hit are farmers, who have to get gas delivered to them; many predict that a shortage will impair their ability to harvest crops this fall. Truckers are also hurting. Chicago's Spector Freight System Inc., for example, expects to spend $1,000,000 more this year because of a 7?-a-gallon jump in the wholesale price of diesel fuel. Before the freeze, prices were rising at the corner gas station as well; in Boston they went up 2? a gallon in the past week. The Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, whose members...
...HARVEST HOME by THOMAS TRYON 401 pages. Knopf...
...source of supply. They chance on the tiny, lost village of Cornwall Coombe, a New England hamlet that, except for electricity, martinis and the odd Oldsmobile, seems stuck in the early 19th century. The farmers there avoid newfangled machines and methods, and the rhythmic planting, growth and harvest of the corn crop through the turning seasons rules village life...
...strangeness of Cornwall Coombe seems to center on the ritualistic way in which the town's corn is planted and harvested. Every seven years a young farmer is chosen to be Harvest Lord, and he in turn chooses a Corn Maiden to preside with him over these rituals. For the seven years of his reign the Harvest Lord is honored with gifts, free labor, respect. After that, well, it's sheer happenstance, of course, but there don't seem to be any former Har vest Lords around, only an extra ordinary number of placid widows...
Troyer is only one of thousands of farmers and elevator owners caught in the great rail tie-up of 1973. In Illinois alone, the state's agriculture department estimates, farmers have had 300 million bushels of last year's grain harvest ready for shipment for months, but cannot move it to market. There is a demand for some 12,000 grain rail cars, but only 5,000 are currently available...