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...hatted diplomatic corps to the betting booths. There were still some good horses. But World War II ended everything. "When the Russians found a good horse," said a sad West Berlin trainer last week, "they either ate it, shipped it to Russia, or tied it to a plow...
...state-supported agriculture school, with about 1700 undergraduates and some 600 graduate students, is important numerically. But it hardly dominates the campus to the extent to which it has sometimes been pictured. Cornell students, with the possible but dubious exception of agriculture students themselves, do not plow their way to classes through herds of cows. Although cows in varying stages of contentment can be seen grazing in great numbers on the pasture lands, the chief student contact with Cornell's bovine enrollment goes no farther than drinking their milk, which is extracted in large quantities from the animals and processed...
...Lysenko, currently out of favor with his bosses, has tried hard-perhaps too hard-for a comeback. At a conference on farm problems, he backed a "new Russian agricultural discovery": plowless farming. Despite Booster Lysenko's proprietary enthusiasm, the technique (loosening soil with a disk harrow instead of plow-turning it over) is old hat to Western experts, has been tried experimentally in various parts of the U.S. for more than a decade...
...exhaust fan to carry off the fumes for $20, plus a $200 collection of chisels, wrenches, hammers, screw drivers, vises and pliers. For outdoor work he buys a $125 power lawn mower, a $35 hedge trimmer, a $115 chain saw for work on his trees, a $250 tractor to plow his garden and shovel snow from his driveway. By the time he is finished, he has as much as $2,000 invested in his new hobby, and he can build anything from a toothbrush rack to a ten-room house, and landscape the land...
...veterans who got farms up there last year came and offered to help. One fellow, a bachelor, is living in a tent, but you should see the crops he's got . . ." By spring, with his family in, Powers hopes to clear the rocks, uproot the brush and plow the land for his first crop, probably grain. For years to come, he hopes for very little-no telephone, no paved road, no nearby school, nothing much but a chance to make a living on his own land. "We'll plant trees," he told Elizabeth as they stared across...