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...tons of truffles, compared with an annual crop of 1,500 to 2,000 tons in the mid-19th century. This was no truffling matter. Accordingly, 450 farmers and scientists met at a two-day conference early this month in the Perigord region of France to discuss the tuber's troubled future. Mourned Charles Parra, president of the Federation of Truffle Producers in the Lot department in southwestern France: "If we don't find a remedy, the truffle will disappear forever from our markets...
...inner tubes, floppy hats, buoyant coolers full of iced beer cans, and an extra car to leave downstream for the trip back, enthusiasts simply stake out a docile stretch of river, plop themselves into the tube's cool well, and float downstream. When the afternoon is over, the tuber is sun-kissed but cool, refreshed but relaxed, with nary an aching muscle. "Tubing," says one insider, "is not tiring." Without once passing beyond the perimeter of his patched piece of commercial refuse, he has communed with nature far more intimately than the man who has played 36 holes...
Yelps & Bruises. On one two-mile stretch of the Apple River near Somerset, Wis., as many as 2,000 tubers drift by on a sunny summer weekend. The current is swift enough to keep off the mosquitoes, the scenery is of travel-brochure quality, the tubes rent for 50?, and the Apple offers several stretches of rough water that lend the illusion of sport. Every once in a while the submerged portion of an inner tuber hits a projecting rock, resulting in yelps, bruises and occasional punctures- not only in the tube...
Even for the most sedate tuber, a problem looms. How long will the supply of inner tubes last? Ever since Akron manufacturers switched to tubeless tires, the cost of inner tubes has suffered from inflation and the supply from depletion. Perhaps demand will force Akron to produce a new item: the tireless tube...
Their staple crop, presumably grown on the river flats after the annual freshet, was lima beans, but they also ate reed shoots, berries and an unidentified tuber. They caught fish with hooks made by tying tender young thorns into a hook shape and letting them harden that way. They had no cotton or wool, but they wove cloth and fish nets of coarse fibers...