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...Sabata, owner of a general store in Dwight, Neb. (pop. 294) thought the recipient of his letter might like to know the price of eggs and such things. Meticulously he set them down: "Coffee, 29? a Ib.; sugar, 8? a Ib.; beans, 9? a Ib.; eggs, 32? a dozen; corn meal, 5 Ib. for 17?; overalls, $1.75 a pr." Added Storekeeper Sabata: "My family consists of four girls, ages 21, 19, 16 and one year. I wouldn't do my government much good for soldiers, having all girls, but I did my part in 1918. I was in France...
Paulette Goddard, in cerise bows and a drapy peasant costume, was putting in corn and chickens at her swimming-pooled New York State farm. She told a reporter about the chickens: "They're red . . . I gather eggs every day." She also has a strawberry patch, thinks that "everyone should take up farming; it's the right thing...
Flooded Farms. The floods meant delayed planting this year, probably smaller harvests. Farmers who already had corn seed in faced the necessity for replanting: seed had either washed away or been rotted by too much moisture. In cities and towns, many a Victory gardener found his garden ruined. The American Red Cross estimated that more than 1,350,000 acres of land were inundated...
...your imagination run not, Bill. Imagine that instead of muddy, gaunt lacrosse fields, you see acres and acres of golden wheat waving in the breeze, row after row of corn, patch after patch of tomatoes, and whatever else might grow in patches. And in every acre a sunburned, freckled Ph.D., toiling with scythe...
...harvest, for instance, about which Wallace Woodworth could improvise a pastoral symphony in 100 voices. Can't you envision the swaying bodies of the reapers (brought in by the Student Union in truckloads from everywhere) and the rhythmic motion of their scythes. And then there are the social possibilities. Corn husking bees, with red ears a-plenty. Square dances in Dillon Field House, with chaff upon the floor...