Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Down on the farm - (nf) Message-ID: <10100079@ea.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 04:40:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.10100079 Posted: Thu Aug 9 04:40:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 06:53:47 EDT References: <238@siemens.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:siemens:-23800:ea:10100079:000:521 Nf-From: ea!mwm Aug 9 03:40:00 1984 #R:siemens:-23800:ea:10100079:000:521 ea!mwm Aug 9 03:40:00 1984 /***** ea:net.politics / kel / 4:46 pm Aug 8, 1984 */ This is (according to Ken Meier, a South Dakota agri-businessman's son become political scientist at the University of Oklahoma) a result of a myth held within the bureaucracy that bigger farms are more efficient farms. /* ---------- */ Rather than just slinging around suggestive phrases (or playing net.politics as usual), how about some facts that demonstrate the falsity of this intuitively correct "myth"? Or do they exist only in the twilight zone?