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Wickard asked for 13% more eggs; the farmers by February had already given him 15%. He asked for 9,000,000 acres of soybeans; the farmers planned to plant 14,000,000. He asked for 8% more corn, to be fed to more hogs and cattle; the farmers promised 5% plus a barley expansion which would make up the difference. Only in peanuts were plantings behind the goals; instead of the 255% increase he asked for, he will...
...soft pink bloom of magnolia, the white tracery of "breath-of-spring" shrubs, the yellow islands of jonquils in deep green grass. Hopeful fishermen ringed Atlanta's Piedmont Park Lake; but they never caught anything. On farms, fresh-turned furrows lay brick-red in the sun; farmers planting corn, cotton and peanuts shouted at their mules...
...Texas, gawky young lambs bounded stiff-legged up green hillsides; farmers put out their tomatoes; the first corn and cotton shoots pierced the fertile land of the Rio Grande Valley. In bottom pastures cows were bloated from eating too much fresh clover. Blue-bonnets carpeted the fields; red birds flashed in the forests; wasps began a lazy buzzing at barn rafters, building their nests. In San Antonio the first kites jerked high in the gusty winds; tennis courts were crowded; Mexican chicos waded in the shallows of San Antonio River...
Alcohol & Allies make the sugar difficulty worse. At least 800,000 tons of our Cuban sugar is now earmarked for alcohol. The grain bloc in Congress is howling for alcohol from corn or wheat instead-though that bloc also objects to letting Commodity Credit Corp. sell its grain stocks below parity (which makes grain alcohol cost more than sugar alcohol). This proposal runs smack into trouble from the industrial alcohol industry because only 40% of the whiskey distillers are equipped to make 190-proof alcohol. The other 60% can make only 140-proof, which would then have to be raised...
...opening night, in a house filled with lowbrows in quest of the old corn, it was Caviartist Draper who stopped the show...