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...CULT OF THE SMALL FAMILY FARMER dates back to Thomas Jefferson, who hailed humble "cultivators of the earth" as America's "most valuable" and "most virtuous" citizens. Politicians still paint American Gothic portraits of the country folk who toil in the soil to grow our food and fiber. But at the Husker Harvest Days farm show in September in Grand Island, Neb., it was clear how far American agriculture had come from the days when Cornhuskers husked corn by hand...
...Jefferson's "cultivators of the earth" didn't have genetically engineered seeds or 530-horsepower tractors. They had 1-horsepower horses. And they didn't have subsidies either. In fact, most antebellum farmers opposed all federal aid to private enterprise, assuming it would just enrich manufacturing élites. The lesson of Husker Harvest Days is that modern farmers--at least the ones with most of the land and subsidies--are a new manufacturing élite. They just happen to be manufacturing food and fiber. Production agriculture is a high-tech, globalized business with economies of scale...
...JEFFERSON'S DAY, 9 OUT OF 10 Americans cultivated the earth. When Abraham Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture, half the country still farmed. He once said farmers were "neither better nor worse than any other people," just "more numerous." (They also received inordinate political flattery, "the reason of which I cannot perceive, unless it be that they can cast more votes.") Under F.D.R., 1 in 5 Americans was still a farmer...
...Pasadena, Calif. “What I discovered in the midst of all that is no matter how afraid you are, you can still maintain goal-oriented behavior.” But the chance to change history was not the only reason that motivated the Little Rock Nine. Jefferson Thomas said that he simply wanted to escape his older siblings’ shadow. “I have seven older siblings who were in all black education systems,” he said. “I did not know that all this would come just because I changed schools...
...Massachusetts,” said Kathleen Strand, communications director of New Hampshire for Hillary. The Harvard Republican Club has planned a similar excursion for Nov. 2, according to Vice President Colin J. Motley ’10. As the Radisson Hotel prepared to host Saturday night’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner—a “who’s who” of New Hampshire Democrats—Harvard students supporting Clinton joined a crowd of campaigners lining the street. Trying to outdo the Obama supporters down the block, the students wielded “totems?...