 What is the Farm?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1957. MOTHER GOOSE Dr. David Lessing found Jack Dorffman and the boy waiting in his office when he arrived at the Hoffman Center that morning. "He's gone completely hay-wire. Nobody's been able to get near him for three weeks, and now at six o'clock this morning he decides he's leaving the Farm. As director of psionic research at the Hoffman Medical Center, he had long since learned how administrative detail could suck up daytime hours. "A Theory of Psionic Influence on Infant and Child Development." And the more they struggled, the thicker and more impenetrable the bramble bush became— But now David Lessing had discovered a pathway through that jungle, a theory to work by— At his elbow the intercom buzzed. "Within the stronghold of psionic research at last. "I think you'd better wait before you do that," Melrose said sharply, "because I'm planning to take you apart at the Conference next month unless I like everything I see and hear down here today. "I want to hear this fairy tale you're about to publish in the name of 'Theory'," Melrose said. "I want to see this famous Farm of yours up in Connecticut and see for myself how much pressure these experimental controls you keep talking about will actually bear. "So far, we haven't found any way to set up logical controls," said Melrose.
 The Farm is a compound where they research the psionic abilities of children.
 The Farm is Dr. Lessing's home in the country.  The Farm is a compound where they research the psionic abilities of children.  The Farm is where they train CIA agents with telekinetic abilities.  The Farm is where they do genetic testing on children to give them psychic abilities.