FARMERS: Senate v. Sun

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Spring, marching swiftly north across the land last week, found teams hitched to harrows and fields being broken, plow horses streaking the countryside with new furrows, tractors barking and chattering with lusty strength. Corn was about to go into the fat black acres of Illinois and Iowa. South Carolinians had their cotton planted; their February oats already sprouting. Seed beds for tobacco were being prepared as far north as Connecticut. Spring wheat was being sowed in Kansas now that the thaw had come & gone. Sows had littered in Iowa....

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