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...agricultural situation, he said, was "complex and unusual." He blamed intense heat for a poor crop in the vast steppes of Siberia; he gave the same excuse for the virgin lands of northern Kazakhstan, where the harvest would be far below expectations. In the Ukraine, bread basket of the Soviet Union, the wheat crop was "somewhat worse than last year." but party officials hoped to meet their overall grain quota by producing more corn (used for cattle fodder) than last year. The only bright spot that Khrushchev reported was in Great Russia, where a "record" grain harvest was reaped...
...first time in 15 years, the price of rice has dropped on the eve of the main harvest because, according to Diem, the Reds can no longer effectively block shipments from the interior to the cities...
...Kansas. It is vast: its 58 counties comprise almost the entire western two-thirds of the state, stretching over more land area than all of New York or Pennsylvania. It has good-sized towns, small towns and well-populated farm areas. Last week its emerald green milo was near harvest; a more delicate green was presented by wheat shoots breaking through the rich soil's surface; still in olive drab was the stubble of the past wheat crop left in a third of the acreage to gather moisture and lie fallow for a year. All this bespoke prosperity...
After the end of the world, the lovers emerge from the mausoleum to find a universe cleansed. "The hour will come when you will ripen and burst, and we shall harvest the fruits of our love," the young man says. "A trace of us will remain, etched in flesh, and nothing more eternal will ever be built more proudly or more boldly than the flesh of our flesh perfumed with...
Without a word the man and woman labor from dark to dark, from month to month in the long hot season to keep their fields alive. From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across...