Word: plowman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plowless Folly. Nor does Dr. Kellogg think much of "plowless farming," a fad promoted by Edward Faulkner's Plowman's Folly. Sometimes, Kellogg says, it is a good idea to avoid plowing, so as to leave a layer of litter on the surface, but the plowless method works only in special cases. "Some farmers and gardeners," says he, "in the eastern part of the U.S.-especially city gardeners-took the doctrine literally and planted corn in fields of Bermuda grass-corn that got a few inches high, turned yellow, and finally perished...
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...
...hottest farming argument since the tractor first challenged the horse was started last summer by Farmer Edward Faulkner's attack on the moldboard plow -Plowman's Folly (TIME, July 26). Last week returns on the great debate had begun to come in. They were very favorable to Faulkner...
...soil. He tested his theory by using a cultivation method of his own: instead of plowing he disk-harrowed the soil and planted his crops in the chopped-up surface stubble, weeds and debris. His harvest was astonishing. Many a farmer who reads his newly published report (Plowman's Folly; University of Oklahoma Press; $2) may be tempted never to plow, again...
...free agents in matters "relating to politics or religion." Said ex-Editor Henson: "Folks who excuse the Oxford Group by saying 'the play was all right' aren't acquainted with Georgia mules. A Georgia mule will be perfectly nice for a year to lure the trusting plowman squarely behind his heels for a kickoff...