Babes in Farm Land

With enrollment soaring at U.S. agricultural colleges, an increasing number of the new students are coming not from the hills and hollows but from the cities. At Illinois, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Purdue and Wisconsin, more than 50% of the aspiring agriculturists were not raised on farms. Ohio State's William Flinn, a rural sociologist, has devised a test to measure their initial ignorance. He whimsically calls it "The Udder American IQ Test." Sample questions:

> A rotary hoe is (a) a subcommittee of the Rotary International, (b) a folk dance in a "hoe down," (c) a type of spike-tooth harrow, (d) a Cultipacker used in no-till agriculture, (e) a farm implement used to loosen soil after planting.

> A Rhode Island Red is (a) a cross-breed between a Suffolk and Dorset, (b) a member of the Communist Party, (c) a variety of muskmelon, (d) a plant disease, (e) a breed of chickens.

> 4-H stands for (a) hard, horny, hairy and hip, (b) head, heart, hearth and hope, (c) head, heart, hands and health, (d) helpless, hyper, hideous and hectic, (e) a four-cylinder Massey-Harris tractor.*

*Answers (e), (e), (c).

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