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...optimism stems from a new kind of operation of the old law of supply and demand−with overtones of Government action. The Agriculture Marketing Service estimates that farmers will harvest 24% less oats, 3% less corn, 10% less barley, 21% less sorghum grain, 5% less hay than they did in 1955. Main reasons are drought and cold weather, which not only cut yield per acre but also prompted farmers to plow their damaged crops under and join the Federal Government's soil bank. Since the soil-bank plan was inaugurated in late May, more than 10.7 million acres...
...charts and then made his decision: a heavy bet on the soil bank to win. Last week, the deadline for the 1956 signup past, the Agriculture Department reported that nearly 500,000 farmers had agreed to take 10,720,749 acres out of production, would thereby reap a cash harvest of $225 million in Government payments come fall. The 1956 bank balance more than satisfied Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who had reckoned the total might be as little as 8,000,000 acres...
...Hutterites of Pincher Creek, Alta. quietly bought 1,000 acres of farmland near Lind, Wash., leased an additional 5,000 acres with an option to buy. Last week 23 members of the Bruderhof who went ahead to take over the new land were bringing in their first grain harvest. Pincher Creek's President Paul Gross was delighted with the results...
Hold to Spiritual Truths. With this chilling announcement. Takikawa and his fellows set to work. Archaeologists surveyed pit dwellings and caves. Shinto researchers examined shrines, pored over ancient manuscripts. Anthropologists cross-examined villagers about festival and harvest customs. Sociologists peered at pots and looms...
...threadbare, third-floor suite of rooms on a Paris back street, Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba told U.S. Ambassador to France C. Douglas Dillon that 400,000 unemployed Tunisians face starvation after two years of poor harvest. Tunisia, said Bourguiba, needs wheat fast. Dillon is keenly aware that France often resents U.S. aid and similar "interference" in North Africa. Had Bourguiba discussed his problem with the French government? Oh yes, said Bourguiba, it was the French Finance Minister, Paul Ramadier, who suggested that Tunisia should put the bite...