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...Farm Bureau's biggest and noisiest rival, the Denver-headquartered National Farmers Union, is at the opposite end of the ideological and political spectrum. Headed since 1940 by Kansas-born Jim Patton, 62, Farmers Union has 750,000 members, strongly supports the Government's hand on the plow. Says Patton, whose favorite pastime is taking pokes at the Farm Bureau: "What Charlie Shuman doesn't realize is that we've got the welfare state and we've had it for 30 years. And we're not going to give it up unless we lose...
...silty water, then returns to his clay-walled hut and squats on the cow-dung floor for breakfast: a thick chapatty (wheat pancake) and a brass tumbler of scalding black tea. Ramoo owns only two bullocks, and with them he plods across his barren acres, dragging a steel-slivered plow designed in prehistory by some Indian prototype who faced the same harsh, crumbling earth. In a year, he raises scarcely enough to feed his bullocks. For lunch Ramoo eats another chapatty covered with watery gruel, and perhaps a slice of mango chutney hoarded by his wife to give the food...
...before it becomes barren," he said at the end. "I don't think Paar's half acre is completely worn out, but it has gotten a little dry lately." Yet "some day I may re-enter the lists -with a new saber neither broken nor bent-and plow up the field all over again. Come on, Leica, come on. We're going home...
...late as 1847, when this scene was witnessed, the mustang myriads that wandered the great plains were one of the principal natural resources of the wild West. Broken to the saddle, harnessed to the plow, they became an instrument of manifest destiny, the brute force that bore forward the men who won the West. In this classic compendium of horse lore, republished for the first time since 1940, a generation obsessed with horsepower is vividly reminded of the power of the horse...
...that cost another $150 or more. Their most trenchant selling point is that they can cut large lawns four times as fast as power mowers. More than 85% of all buyers order a mowing attachment with their tractor; after that, they may choose other accessories that blow away or plow snow, roll and aerate lawns, haul logs, sweep driveways, bull doze dirt, and even forklift heavy loads. Inevitably, luxury optionals have been introduced: cigarette lighters, headlights for nighttime mowing, can opies and padded seats...