Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corn ($54), $49 per acre for cotton ($104) and $57 per acre for rice ($113). At those rates the farmer with especially promising crop prospects would probably stay out of the program this year, but the farmer afflicted by adverse conditions, e.g., drought, insect infestation, would be likely to plow under his crops. In that sense the Benson program was tooled to help the farmer who needed it most...
Last week, out on bail awaiting trial, and in seclusion on the farm, Vernon Richter cocked his ear at the sound of tractors, looked out to find 30 men with 20 tractors arriving from nearby farms. While his neighbors helped him plow 100 acres and seed them with corn and soybeans, 15 women spread a potluck lunch, had a friendly good time. The plowing done, Richter tried to thank his departing neighbors, but broke down. Said Farmer Harold Hearstad: "He's a nice fellow and a good worker. He just worked too hard...
...year's end Barbara was stunned to learn that Rancho del Monte had turned a profit of $4.98. "Do we take that four ninety-eight profit and plow it into a fund for our old age?" she asked. "We do not," Bill said stanchly. "We put every penny of it back into the ranch." After a hectic visit to New York which showed her just what she was not missing. Barbara agreed...
...hour to give extracurricular Spanish lessons. In class he had a knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer...
With that, the Administration harvested a healthy first crop in the farm policy fight. But the Senate still has to plow its way through 70-odd proposed amendments to the farm bill, and then the bill has to go to conference, where it will be up against a rigid support bill passed by the House last year. At week's end, Secretary Benson was prodding Congress to hurry the bill through so the widely favored soil bank plan will put some money into farmers' pockets this year...