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...rotary tiller which, avoiding the ruinous, soil-destroying effects of the moldboard plow (TIME, July 26), chops, harrows and disks the ground...
Says Goodspeed: "What the modern reader most wants of the New Testament is to know what it means." The British Bible, he says, was written "for the plow-boys of England."-He thinks that modern readers want to know that "about the sixth hour" means "about noon," that "wine mingled with myrrh" means "drugged wine," that "fifty thousand pieces of silver" means...
Your article "Down With the Plow" (TIME, July 26) interested me very much because I have an orchard and vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Calif., which I planted 18 years ago. I have not plowed this place for 15 years on the theory that plowing . . . would do more damage to the soil than good, as these mountains suffer every year from erosion. . . . My trees are more vigorous and produce more fruit than my neighbors...
...average man can't plow through all the mass of headlines and text and have time left to sit down and think what the news really means to him. He gets a whole lot of pictures, like a series of disjoined subjects thrown on a screen. When it's all over, he doesn't know what the hell it means to him. He wants to know what it means to his pocketbook, to his-belly ... his living habits, his clothes, his home. That's the way we are going to try to write the news...
Last week the top U.S. soil expert, Soil Conservation Director Hugh Hammond Bennett, saluted Faulkner. Bennett pointed out that some pioneering farmers (notably United Fruit Co. and some Cuban sugar-cane growers) have long used a system of cultivation like Faulkner's, called "stubble mulch." The moldboard plow, agreed Bennett, is doomed, except for some special crops and uses...