Word: conservationism
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When the Secretary of Agriculture reorganizes his department, inauspicious bureaus like the Soil Conservation Service are supposed to adjust with stoic indifference. But in eighteen years of advising farmers how to make their lands more valuable, the Soil Service has developed a strong esprit de corps. Working with other federal...
It was the third straight monthly cutback, dropping the flow to 2,803,000 barrels a day v. 3,146,920 in August. Since there is an oil surplus, it was a safe bet that the 21 other states in the Interstate Oil Compact Commission would follow suit. Texas, producing...
Storm Center. The Texas Railroad Commission's conservation methods have made it a storm center for two decades. There is no longer any question about the wisdom of controlling the flow of oil from any given field, in order to get as much oil as possible out of the...
Paganini treasured the instrument for the rest of his life. He took it home to Genoa, where he devised some of the fantastic technical tricks-such as playing pizzicato with his left hand while bouncing his bow across the strings with his right to create a dazzling cascade of notes...
Support for Insurance. Farmers are as proud as anyone else and they don't want to see headlines castigating them as a special class undermining the free-enterprise system or any other treasured American value. So most of them will begin a conversation by saying that they're...