The onetime Kansas farm boy, who is now an absentee Pennsylvania farm owner, took time one day last week from his capital chores for a visit to the U.S. Government's great agricultural research center (11,000 acres, 1,000 buildings, 2,000 hired hands) at Beltsville. Md. Guided by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson, Dwight Eisenhower inspected greenhouses, orchards, poultry pens, prize-winning cows. ("Of all things on the farm," said the President, "I hated milking most.") Fingering a lightweight raincoat made from corn fibers and fats, he wondered, half in jest and half with his mind on staggering federal butter surpluses, if "we could...
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