FROM MISSOURI

by Thad Snow ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Here is a man who has been a farmer for fifty years and who has something to say about his life, his interests and his country in down to earth terms. Born in Greenfield, Indiana, he knew James Whitcomb Riley, he learned to drink with an old friend of Jimmy's, he had girl trouble, health problems -- and he finally settled for farming. And he learned how to raise hogs, cattle, sheep; he trained his dogs and his mares and his mules; he moved to new lands in southeast Missouri delta (""Swampeast""- a term he coined, caught on) and saw the land change from corn and cattle to cotton; he knew floods and drought and the problems of the sharecroppers; he felt the force of mass hysteria in the croppers' road-side sit down demonstration. The latter took him to Washington where, as a greenhorn lobbyist, he tried to do his bit for his fellow farmers with the Farm Security Administration, in the early '40s. He has his say on the economics and finance of agriculture, and he makes vivid the world of nature that he loves so that the whole picture is one of a lively, inquiring mind which is a definite pleasure to meet. Not too often is a farmer as articulate and this one should make many new friends. Superior.

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Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION