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...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 since 1919. By day, the farmers fretted over the things that could go wrong. Hail storms or heavy rain could lay whole fields flat. A spell of 100-degree heat might...
Boxing is the favorite entertainment of the occupation forces on Guadalcanal. Every Saturday night U.S. servicemen, New Zealanders and woolly-haired natives choke the roads to the ringside, scramble for seats in trucks parked bumper to bumper. More than an hour before the first bout, every nearby coconut tree is loaded with spectators and standing room is hard to find...
...rains helped the winter-wheat crop. Oklahoma and Kansas farmers cheerfully scanned billowy green fields. Good growing weather until June would mean a bumper harvest to spill into the nearby empty elevators. Pastures and grazing lands also thrived; from New England to the Rockies, the grass was lush...
...livestock population is now so big that practically all of last year's bumper corn harvest, plus a carry-over of 394 million bushels, will have been drawn from the cribs by October, when the 1944 corn crop is harvested. It is estimated that by July, wheat stocks in the cavernous elevators will be down to a little more than a month's supply. In one year the record number of U.S. livestock will have eaten all the grain that the land produced, plus the huge surpluses from other years...
...best the U.S. can hope for this year are grain harvests as large as last year's bumper crops. A poor harvest would mean swift national disaster, for grains are the broad base upon which rests the entire agricultural economy. Better than 60% of all cultivated U.S. farm land is planted to grains, most of which are fed to livestock and thus converted into meat and dairy products. Without grain there can be no hogs, no prime beef, ho poultry or eggs, no bread, and much less milk...