Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plays the present against the past, especially in descriptions of Erks' dangerous drive over the mountains and across deserts. There are intensely perceived set pieces: a dog battling a possum; a woman reassembling a carburetor with Zen-like grace; a Snopesian funeral in a field littered with rusty tractor parts and dominated by the sight and smell of a huge pig roasting on a spit...
Members of the American Agriculture Movement, which sponsored a tractor drive-in to Washington last year to protest low farm prices, demonstrated in front of Government agriculture offices in more than half of Oklahoma's 77 counties. In Sharon Springs, Kans., angry AAM members mounted their tractors and surrounded the office of the U.S. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Protest Leader Paul Wilson accused the Government of betrayal. Said he: "We planted fence post to fence post like they wanted, and now this is what happens." Said Wheat Farmer Lysle Davidson Jr. of Johnson City, Kans.; "We think of ourselves...
Grain farms in Cass County, N. Dak., one of the largest counties in the state, average 1,000 acres, and good wheatland costs $1,500 an acre. Thus the typical Cass County farmer is running a business worth $1.5 million just for property. Then comes equipment. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 now costs at least twice as much, and farmers already talk glumly about the advent of $100,000 combines...