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...forage harvesters 100% to 170,000; hay balers 100% to 393,000. For expanding dairy farmers, milking machines shot up from 212,000 to close to 800,000. All told, U.S. farmers, who had $3.2 billion invested in machines in 1940, have poured $18.7 billion into their barnyard automation, are adding millions more each month. As a result, each farmer grows enough to feed himself and 17 others v. ten others 20 years...
...dusted off by British Novelist T. H. White (The Sword in the Stone). The work is a charming illustration of how medieval man's other-worldly eye rested on the wonders of nature. As natural history, the book shows astonishingly small powers of observation of even familiar barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair wishes to have a young one, they first eat of the mandrake (representing Adam...
Gina is cast as a peasant girl of the Abruzzi mountains, a sort of cross between Lady Godiva, the farmer's daughter and a merrily uncommon scold. The butt of some pretty rich barnyard humor as she bounces around the countryside on her donkey, Gina gives as good as she gets. Her ragged dress appears inadequate for keeping the weather out, but it lets in a lot of stares. However, a peep is all the village Toms get. Gina is in love with a local cop (Roberto Risso), and he with her. Police regulations, however, deplore such goings...
...Cloverdale, Ill., with Country Singer Eddy Arnold on hand to greet viewers and help show the folks around the place. The cameras ranged nearly everywhere: to the dairy barn to watch the milking; to the front yard, for a talk with Mother Landmeier and her healthy youngsters; to the barnyard, where Weatherman Clint Youle spoke of the crops and elements ("In Georgia and Virginia, the pecans are doing pretty well"); and too frequently to tireless Eddy Arnold, who will twang out a li'l song at the drop of a cornball. The chief trouble with the show, in fact...
...well ask. Translator Moore's answer is ready and certain: "Compared with the fables, my own work is insignificant. No poet now living could have written them." By now, Poetess Moore is so soaked in the lessons learned the hard way by La Fontaine's zoo and barnyard folk that "subconsciously I live by his precepts...