Word: bu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bu thon-ki-du-ke (Have you worms...
...Created an actual corn shortage. (If hogs continue to consume corn at the present rate, the U.S. will have only 25,000,000 bu. at next season's end-one-twelfth the normal carry-over...
...Prospects for the winter wheat crop had declined to 515,000,000 bu. (from the 558,000,000 bu. of a month...
...Southern peach crop was expected to be about 9,000,000 bu. instead of last year...
Statistically the U.S. is not yet short of wheat. But the estimated carry-over by next July will be only 550,000,000 bu., less than a year's supply even in normal times; less than half the expected needs for the 1943-44 season. Moreover, most of the carry-over is Government-owned, and Congress refuses to let it be sold below parity prices (over $1.40 a bu.). Since that is much too high to make it economical for cattle feed, and since the $1.05 ceiling on corn has kept that feed crop off the market, Eastern farmers...