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...Feathered Flights. "Our growth is amazing," says mustachioed Bob McLeod, 36, president of the fledgling United States Darting Association. "For every 100 players we had registered last year, we have 200 this year." The listing of darts pubs in On the Wire, USDA's ten-times-yearly newsletter, grows with every issue. McLeod has enlisted 4,300 enthusiasts under the USDA banner so far and estimates the total U.S. dartist population at about 3.2 million...
...darts themselves come in an enormous variety of sizes and shapes, from simple wooden affairs to the Ambassador model, which boasts a gold-plated barrel and genuine feathers called flights. Aficionados would not be caught dead without their own favorite brand of dart. The standard board, favored by USDA and a fixture in most English pubs, is made of tightly packed sisal fiber and marked off in 20 pieshaped sections with a score value of from 1 to 20, and inner and outer bull's-eyes worth 50 and 25 points respectively.* Some pubs, like Washington's Wakefields...
...fermentation industry has benefited from this work; and our present study of sourdough lactic-acid bacteria, solicited not by us but by the USDA, is designed to assist the baking industry...
...sincerely appreciate TIME'S contribution to greater public understanding of farm problems in its cover story of April 5 and its April 12 story illustrating USDA's program to adjust land use to meet growing needs for outdoor recreation. Yet the last sentence in your cover story is deeply disturbing in its implication that the freedom to plant extra acres of corn is more important than freedom to earn a fair living...
Costlier Handouts? The vote may, as Benson devoutly hopes, provide a long-range step-down of subsidized prices toward market prices, may help trim the monstrous program that inflated USDA's current budget to $6.9 billion. But, in the short haul, Benson's economy-seeking victory could become the costliest cornucopia in the history of subsidies.* In recent years only a small proportion (12% in 1958) of corn farms qualified for high supports by staying inside the Government's acreage limits. Farmers who planted more fed it to livestock, sold it on the open market-or sold...