Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Exactly 150 years ago, on May 15, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the bill which created the United States Bureau (later Department) of Agriculture.

Seems like as good an excuse as any to haul out some songs about farming to open this week's Whizbang.

 

 

Tuesday 5/15/12, 8-10 PM.  

 

Rebroadcast Friday midnight after Popular Demand.

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