The gourmet’s ongoing failure to think in moral terms

Despite the hullabaloo over our surplus farm products, the fact remains that half the world today is undernourished, and that ways must be found for increasing the production and distribution of food. If the experiments described in the article which follows prove to be applicable to cattle and poultry, the new genetic principles will revolutionize the farmer’s job of feeding not just America but the world. GRANT CANNON is Managing Editor of the Farm Quarterly, and a frequent contributor to the Atlantic.

In its loopy way the dromedary camel is already perfect, but in recent years biologists have been competing to refine it. The motivation comes from camel racing -- the Sport of Sheikhs

A novelist turned agronomist and now an American farmer with a Cause, Louis BROMFIELDhas been rousing the conscience of this country in the fight for conservation. In his books Pleasant Valley and Malabar Farm, in his vigorous speeches from coast to coast, and most of all by the yields he has produced with modern methods on his own Ohio farm, he has shown that run-down, eroded acres can be transformed into fertile, productive fields.

At every stage of his development, Man has tried to read the future. In America numerologists, ostrologists, palmists, and mediums still beckon the gullible. A Bantu diviner gets his advance information from bones, and in Borneo the behavior of birds is the best clue to the future. In this article, drawn from his forthcoming book. The Heathens: Primitive Man and His Religions, William Hotvells has collected the more significant omens and portents. He is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.

by Peter Davison As time takes its toll of those who brought American poetry into flower after World War I, who are the likely successors to Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens. William Carlos Williams, and Theodore Roethke? Mr. Davison, whose latest book of poems, THE CITY AND THE ISLAND, was published by Atheneum last year, nominates Robert Lowell and James Dickey for the honor.