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...almost the entire western two-thirds of the state, stretching over more land area than all of New York or Pennsylvania. It has good-sized towns, small towns and well-populated farm areas. Last week its emerald green milo was near harvest; a more delicate green was presented by wheat shoots breaking through the rich soil's surface; still in olive drab was the stubble of the past wheat crop left in a third of the acreage to gather moisture and lie fallow for a year. All this bespoke prosperity, and Kansas' First District is certainly prosperous...
...Believe In." Now Breeding is following in the tracks of his predecessor. As chairman of the House Agriculture Subhome as "Mr. Wheat.'' He strongly supports Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's program to impose strict production controls on wheat and pay for them with high subsidies. While campaigning, he makes a soft-spoken case for his views: "I've seen 21?-a-bushel wheat in the 19305 and have felt the dry dust of my land run through my fingers. I'm against that. I believe in $2-a-bushel wheat...
...House of Representatives passed a compromise farm bill, giving the Administration some (but not all) of the controversial production controls it sought in an earlier bill which the House rejected. By 1964 the Secretary of Agriculture will be empowered to set the acreage planted to wheat at whatever level is necessary to maintain the national supply without adding to surpluses...
...adopt a policy of 'Let nature take its course,' as some individuals thoughtlessly advocate, it is possible that these would-be experts would find disposing of the 200 million surplus human beings even more perplexing than the disposition of America's current corn, cotton and wheat surpluses...
...they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across to the mainland, trudge off to the spring...