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Show No More Corn Decided not to plant any more corn. Having sat on the banks of the Potomac and watched thousands thous-ands of tons of topsoil wash down from the cornfields of Maryland and Virginia, I finally decided to do my part by planting no more corn.. Despite strip-farming and contour-plowing, both of which we practice prac-tice religiously, any cornfield, unless un-less on level ground, is bound to wash away the most prioeless gift nature gave us our topsoil. So, from now on, we are filling fill-ing our silo with alfalfa. The farmers of Iowa, where the ground is flat, can supply the nation with corn. Met a gradually disappearing species the country doctor. Young Dr. Garrett Hume got out of the army and decided he wanted to help his fellow men by practicing where doctors were scarce. He hung out his shingle at Georgetown, Del., and has been answering calls on an 18-hour schedule ever since. So, in an age when more doctors gravitate to the city and specialized special-ized medicine, here's hats off to the country doctors, like Garrett Hume, who stay out where distances are long, where fees are low and where people need them most. |