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...sporadic showers and light snows. To the dry-skinned farmers and ranchers who have been sitting out a searing drought for as long as eight years, the kiss of moisture on the crumbling land stirred a pulse-pounding flicker of hope; now, perhaps, seasonal rains would soak the ravaged soil, renew the empty springs. Last week the hoped-for moisture came. But it was a bitter draught...
...land where nothing succeeds like excess, Comrade Kadar proved himself adept. Said he: "We have stepped on the soil of the Soviet Union with our hearts filled with confidence, for we have come to our most faithful, our truest friends." Kadar thanked the Russians effusively for their bloody intervention in Hungary last autumn, in which an estimated 25,000 Hungarians lost their lives. "The whole world now knows," Kadar said, "that every socialist state can count on the help of the Communist camp and above all of the Soviet Union." Then Kadar and hosts drove off for "ideological and economic...
LOWEST CROP ACREAGE since 1917 will be planted this year by farmers, who are seeding 334 million acres v. 346 million last year. But 3.5% cut is only half what Department of Agriculture expected from the soil-bank plan, and recent increases in productivity per acre may keep output at same granary-bursting peak...
...they said, on "Government rent." Ex-servicemen heading for the state V.F.W. convention joked about the wheat crop they had "already harvested." Some vacation-minded farmers counted their "Florida money." One and all, they were talking about the payments they get from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's soil bank for taking land out of surplus crops...
...County (county seat: Council Grove), Lawyer Marlin Brown and a partner got 5½% insurance-company loans to buy eight farms, 1,500 acres, for an average $62.50 an acre. They plan to farm only the best 200 acres, but can put 771 of the poorer acres into the soil bank's "conservation reserve." For covering this land with Sudan grass now and sowing a permanent cover of bluestem and grama grasses next year, they expect the Government to pay upwards of $15,000, about 80% of the seed and sowing costs. This subsidized sowing qualifies the land...