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Henry Morgenthau Jr., Governor of the Federal Farm Credit Administration which inherited responsibility for all Government loans to farmers, invoked this old legal provision against Secretary Wallace's Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Farmers owed the Government $139,335,742 for seed, feed and crop production purposes. They owed local agricultural credit corporations another $70,982,175, more than half of which had been in default for years. Of the $64,204, 300 borrowings in 1932, $42,740,721 remains unpaid. Governor Morgenthau figured that crop bounties offered a fine chance to balance his books, get farmers out of debt...
...beasts. Of all the mouse autopsies she has performed, about 15,000 were cancerous mice, but only about 25 had intestinal tumors. The difference probably lies in the diet. For long years her mice received the same diet (mostly fresh bread, twice-pasteurized whole milk, timothy hay and bird seed). Thus most of their cancers came from irritations, cage-rubbing, fights, minor infections. This does not disprove her heredity theory, for the cancers occur only in the susceptible animals. Lately she has been working on mice fed diets comparable to the varied diets of human beings...
Because it is what horticulturists call a "sport" there is only one way that Baron Lambeau's Cattleya Gigas Alba can be propagated. Seeds are useless; its seed if sown would revert to the colors of its comparatively worthless parents. But every year or so, depending on the Alba's strength, an expert with a sharp knife can cut off three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long...
Last autumn the mortgage-burdened farmer plowed, harrowed and seeded 40,000,000 acres of good wheat land. The seed sprouted. The farmer returned to pass long winter evenings by his radio, leaving the care of his crop to the climate that God should provide. But snow did not come to protect the seedlings from the cold and or rain did not fall to give them moisture when they needed it in spring. When the farmer went forth in the early May sunshine, instead of finding his flat fields covered with a lush green growth of young grain, he found...
Because his Farmer office was always littered with samples of seed corn, that publication's new Des Moines building was made mouse-proof throughout. On its roof Henry Wallace plays badminton with Managing Editor Donald Murphy. In Washington he walks three miles to his office before 8 a. m., lunches at his desk, goes home after 6 p. m. Summers he climbs Pikes Peak in a bee line...