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Burma was probably worse off than any country in southeast Asia. Rice, the main staple of Burmese diet, was scarce, chiefly owing to a shortage of draft animals and agricultural implements (in the rice paddies, many a Burmese farmer pulled his own makeshift plow). Nevertheless, the Government insisted on sending large amounts of Burmese rice to India. Farmers had no incentive to sow more, because the ceiling prices at which they can sell their rice were kept low by Government order, while the prices of consumer goods skyrocketed ($8 for a cheap cotton shirt). The promised $120 million British loan...
...Plow Down, Costs Up. As owners hopped aboard their machines and clanked off down the field last week, Evan Hardy strode after them, noting pulling power and gas consumption, making sure they had their machines adjusted properly. He showed that a rubber-tired machine was more economical, needed only four h.p. hours per acre against five for its steel-wheeled brother. He discussed the alignment of wheels so that they do not compete with each other, the best speed to reduce slippage of discs, the most economical depth of tillage. Said he: "It's the top four inches...
Like Edward H. Faulkner (Plowman's Folly, TIME," July 26, 1943), Dr. Hardy has found that farmers who use the old moldboard plow spend 33%-50% more than those using the shallow-plowing one-way disc. With the disc a farmer can cover double the acreage plowed in the same time. Nearly all of the farmers are now using discs. To avoid pulverizing the soil and laying the prairies open to soil drifting, they should not be pulled faster than 5½ miles an hour...
...gloves were off, and the rough, clenched hands which had once guided a plow through the rich Missouri soil were there for all to see. Having compared the Trainmen's Alexander Whitney and the Engineers' Alvanley Johnston to enemy agents, the President went on to denounce them in the strongest language he could use over the radio. Time & again he referred to "these two men," "Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston,"-with mounting scorn...
...voracious instinct for opportunity. He hired out to plow the eroded red soil with oxen, sold peaches to passengers on the Illinois Central's cars, wangled a job as a printer's devil. When he was 16 he left home, headed for the rich black Delta lands downriver, became a bookkeeper in a country store at Lula, Miss. In 1892, at 17, he went to Memphis...