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...Indian refuses, but his wife decides to go. She puts the baby in her husband's arms. "Now," she says softly, "you have a cow." The Roots, for seriousness and intensity of feeling, is possibly the strongest motion picture that has been made in Mexico since Luis Buñuel turned out Los Olvidados, and The Cows is clearly the strongest of the film's four episodes. It has the strength of righteous anger, but it has anger's weakness, too. It overstates its case. The Mexican Indian is often poor, but in the villages...
...Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls a "technological explosion" has taken place on U.S. farms. The combined impact of more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from 67 to 26. Since the early 19403, the average U.S. farm investment per worker has soared from $3,500 to more than $15,000. This technological explosion has made the small, unmechanized farm economically obsolete...
...FARM EXPORTS jumped 35% to record $4.7 billion in fiscal 1957. Government-subsidized cotton exports hit 7,700,000 bales v. 2,200,000 bales in 1956; wheat shipments rose to 535 million bu. from 340 million bu. Agriculture Department expects foreign sales boom to level off in current fiscal year because of bumper cotton, wheat crops abroad, new import controls in some dollar-short countries...
...million blunder by Dallas' big Burrus Mills, which undertook to store 37 million bu. of surplus wheat in special tents three years ago because conventional grain-elevator space was unavailable. Floods came, starlings pecked holes in the thin canvas, rats and insects invaded the tents. When time came to release the wheat, much of it was fit only for animal feed. The Agriculture Department is withholding $4,700,000 in storage fees and wants another $8,000,000 in damages. Sadly, Burrus admits it owes the U.S. $10.7 million, questions only $2,000,000 of the Government...
...Despite the acreage limitation program and the soil-banking of more than 12 million acres (in reality often poor land) at a cost of $231 million, the 1957 crop promises to be only a fraction smaller than last year, further adding to the nation's ominous 1.3 billion-bu. surplus...