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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Farm Board's wheat stablization operations produced topsy-turvy economic results. In the face of a falling world market the Board bought Chicago wheat around 76? per bu., pegged the domestic price at that leve. George S. Milnor, president of Grain Stabilization Corp., declared: "Domestic conditions do not justify lower prices and this company will continue . . . to maintain the present or a higher level...
...Onondaga Indians at a reservation 3½ mi. south of Syracuse, the State of New York last week sent 150 bu. of salt and $700 in cash. No gift was this, but the annual payment in cash & kind stipulated by ancestors of the present Onondagas when the State purchased from them the site of the City of Syracuse in 1795. Reason for the salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from...
...orders, traders dumping their holdings, farmers selling their crops. Then Mr. Milnor received from Chairman Legge of the Farm Board a blanket order to go into the pit and buy. He did, vigilantly spent at least $1,000,000 a day. He met every December offering at 73? per bu. or higher. When he finished, Grain Stabilization Corp. had added some 20,000,000 bu. of wheat to the 60,000,000 bu. it had held since last spring and the 24,000,000 bu. it had taken up "to strengthen soft spots" from time to time during the past...
...wagons you could hear the bang and rattle of hard corn ears hitting against wagon boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...
...corn husked, 1% of the weight of shucked corn is deducted; for every ounce more than nine the penalty is 3%. Ray Hanson's penalties were heavy and Fred Stanek was declared the winner. He had husked a net load of 2,123.8 Ib., 30.34 bu. of grain. Farmers felt that he could have equalled the all-time record of 35.8 bu. set by Elmer Williams of Illinois ("The Praying Husker") in 1925 had Farmer Palmer's stand of corn been better than...