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...surliness alienates his educated children, hastening their departure and his decline from peasant-bourgeois hardheadedness. One turns out an indolent woman's man. The girl is a prig. The other son, bright and gentle, joins the revolutionaries. They are, as Pyotr was, boys without any family tradition. The seed of their difficulty, as of Russia's, was the so sudden liberation and enrichment of their peasant forbear by his aristocratic master at the Emancipation. The Russian bear did not learn to dance in a generation. In two it forgot how to dig for roots and nourishment...
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...industrious son of Adam, grew more bushels of corn to an acre than any other man, was hailed corn monarch of the world.* Last week he was summoned from his farm near Ada, Ohio, to tell President Coolidge how he makes corn grow. Farmer Marshall's formula: good seed, fertilizer heavily applied, and a careful rate of planting...
...Passed the Norbeck-Johnson seed loan bill, authorizing the Government to lend $5,000,000 to needy farmers. (Bill went to the President...
...York World, of current laws proposed in state legislatures, the republic is being safeguarded from every possible angle; adopting the methods of modern medicine, the eager solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit," he warns grimly, "in the curse...