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Associate Editor William Bowen separated wheat from chaff, and had enough unused words to fill a few storage bins, but none so large as those grain storage bins in Kansas that are shown on the cover...
Preparing himself against the possibility of defeat, Freeman keeps saying that rejection of his wheat plan would not bring any change in his policies. But if Freeman loses, Congress may decide that the time has come to re-examine the entire support-control system. Then, perhaps, U.S. farm policy will get moving, however slowly, in the direction of freedom...
...first commissioner, a Pennsylvania dairy farmer named Isaac Newton, became a martyr to the cause of agricultural progress. One summer afternoon in 1866, he noticed that a storm was gathering, hurried to the department's horticultural garden to rescue some experimental wheat specimens that had been cut but left outdoors. Bustling about in his top hat and frock coat, he suffered a heat stroke from which he never fully recovered...
...mashed potatoes, stretch-cotton fabrics and machine-washable woolens, cheaper penicillin and longer-lasting blood plasma. Projects now in the works promise a wild-green-yonder of even greater farm abundance-and, of course, threaten bigger surpluses. The department's scientists are breeding new, higher-yielding varieties of wheat; they are trying to devise ways of making grain crops and grasses add nitrogen to the soil instead of subtracting it; they are combatting the boll weevil and other crop-destroying insects by sterilizing male insects in laboratories, then releasing them in the fields to compete with other males...
...city as populous as Chicago, has become a bustling, busy metropolis. New skyscrapers line the banks of the Nile, throwing glittering light on the river at night and by day reflecting in their glass walls the stately grace of the sails of feluccas headed upriver with cargoes of wheat and lime...