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Each year the chapter buys from 250 to 400 steer calves, uses $40,000 worth of feed. Once, it bought 40 acres of sagebrush land, leveled it, tested its soil, built up its fertility, then gave it to the district as a $35,000 gift. The boys have proved such able businessmen, in fact, that the Wasco bank thinks little about making them loans. One boy-the son of a Swiss immigrant who works for $1.37 an hour-has borrowed and repaid...
...said. At the end of their first week in Iowa, the Russians had said nothing about the real difference between farming in the U.S.S.R. and in the U.S.: freedom. But Iowans hoped they understood that the difference meant prosperity and a full realization of the bounty from fertile soil, well and happily tended...
Great areas of the desert have turned green with new water wells and hundreds of miles of new irrigation canals. The fertile soil and year-round growing season give desert agriculture an intensity and diversity undreamed of by the Midwest dirt farmer. In California's rich, 650,000-acre Imperial Valley, grains, cotton, lettuce, sheep, flax, cattle and carrots can be raised side by side. Farmers change their crops to meet changing market conditions, and, when water is needed, a telephone order brings it sluicing through laterals from the All-American Canal, which stretches 80 miles to the Colorado...
...companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate of 50,000 strokes a minute; other attachments mix fertilizer and lime, plant seed, cover and fumigate the soil against insects, all in a single operation. Even in brush-covered territory, says Cohen, the Wonsover can plant 70 acres in 24 hours v. 460 hours for conventional tractors, plows and seeders...
Citation: "Your music springs naturally from our soil, and you have given wings of melody to the legends of our people...