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...supposed to steer the plants' efforts in the right direction. Elsewhere, farmers still believed that a silver coin in the churn would make butter come faster; that a storm was brewing when pigs ran around with sticks in their mouths, or when cats and rats played together after sundown...
Corn is planted (with a horse-drawn planter) about the second week in May. As soon as the green spikes pierce the black soil, it is cultivated with a rotary hoe. Dale Kuester claims that, when in form, he can hoe 80 acres between sunup and sundown. After three hoeings, there are two more complete cultivations with regular corn cultivators...
...Sundown (pop. 1,500) rabid football citizens dug deep for $3,000 to pay a good coach; Brownsville anted a fat $5,000 for its coach. By adding a bumper-to-bumper motorcade to the first (so they claimed) postwar-special football train, practically all of Odessa's inhabitants trekked 170 miles to see their team play Abilene...
Over the lonely, intractable, life-giving land, the antagonist and provider, the primitive peasant labors achingly by day. At sundown, with his last strength, he feeds and beds the creatures for whom his concern must always be so much greater than for himself. Then night comes down-night which is even more mysterious than day. By the fire, in warmth and light, the man may rest. But he cannot forget the great darkness which is closing in. The forces of the earth, the impulses of growing vegetation, the flow of waters, the sweep of winds, the souls of animals...
...sundown most of the picnickers began to straggle back to the mainland (the clubhouse has overnight accommodations for only about 20). All proclaimed the outing a great success. Said one good Democrat: "It was a good party. There was all we could eat, and more than we could drink-and only two people passed...