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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Living expenses for the year were held to $500. The rest of the income went back into the farm, and $359 was paid to FSA. War and the weather swelled the Walls' income. Good weather lifted the corn yield in 1942 to an average of 90 bu. an acre (during the drought year the yield was twelve bu. - which is no crop at all). The war demand for food pushed up prices for hogs, eggs and milk. In 1942 their gross income soared to $4,200. Despite these comparative riches, the Walls resolutely held their living expenses...
...profit & loss can measure the gain to U.S. society when the Wall family got their start. Clear of debt, Joe and Carolyne Wall are planning solidly for the future. Last week Farmer Wall was ready to thresh his 20 acres of oats-he figures on a yield of 40 bu. to the acre...
...Ford County, on the fringe of the onetime dust bowl, ten million bushels of wheat were in fabulous prospect. So far everything was wonderful; the waving golden ocean of wheat had been estimated on May i at 150,000,000 bu. for all Kan sas; by June 1 the crop looked more like 165,000,000 bu. 20,000,000 bu. more than last year. By night, with stubby pencils the Ford County farmers reckoned their profits, at a bumper prospect of 30 bu. an acre. They figured they would get $1.50 a bu., biggest price in a good year...
...food is the equivalent of adding 25 million people to the U.S. population; 3) years of rich harvests and low feed costs have encouraged livestock producers to increase their herds to alltime highs. Grain men last week estimated that to supplement the short stocks of feed, 470 million bu. of wheat will be fed to livestock during the crop year...
...even this successful program will probably run afoul of shortages of 1) alcohol, 2) grain. Fortnight ago, WPB wangled another 38,000,000 bu. of grain from the War Food Administration, is now furiously working to finish three alcohol distilling plants at Omaha, Kansas City and Muscatine, Iowa. But WPB can get no more grain without cutting into the U.S. food and feed supply. Petroleum must do the rest...