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...been getting his dope from his batman, a coal black Xosa named Filemon. Filemon had been a tribal weather prophet of renown. He had joined the army only after an embarrassment involving a long-range weather forecast, a perversely unexpected dry spell, and his tribe's 1940 corn crop...
Where the corn grows tall in Iowa, almost everybody knows hearty, conscientiously corny Ray Anderson. In blizzards and blistering heat, through muck and manure, he has been rambling its countryside for 17 years, helping build for the Cedar Rapids Gazette a circulation of 45,000, for himself a 242-lb. girth and a reputation as a top U.S. newspaper farm page editor. This week 55-year-old Anderson moved to broader pastures. His new beat: the rural Midwest, as a roving editor of Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (TIME...
...subsoiling"-all of which loosen the soil without turning it over. The object is to leave on the surface a stubble "beard," both to check erosion and provide decaying organic matter as fertilizer. In the Iowa test these methods: > Produced bigger soybean crops than plowing, slightly smaller corn crops.† > Saved one-third to half of the man and machine power required by plowing. > Reduced soil erosion from 34 tons per acre to ten. > Seemed to keep down weeds better...
Everybody knew where Rankin stood, which was four-square against a federal ballot for soldiers, eight-square against the Administration, and, of course, 16-square in favor of the poll-tax, white supremacy, and Southern womanhood. John Rankin, master old-fashioned orator, counted on his corn to hold the House's attention. He was not wrong...
Best story is Rudolph Umland's fantastic folk tale, Phantom Airships of the Nineties, about the great airship illusion in the corn belt. Airships were rarer than passenger pigeons when in 1890 Nebraskans first began to see mysterious lights in the night sky. Soon they saw airships flying "with the velocity of an eagle." One airship was 2,000 feet long, carried tons of dynamite to drop on the Spaniards in Cuba. Another (according to the Wilsonville Review), powered by a windmill, swept low enough for one of its crew to shout to fascinated Nebraskans a tantalizing summons: "Weiver...