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...example, do not fit into the picture. Yet Dr. Stetson argues that four out of the last five major slumps have followed "in the wake" of sunspot maxima. He mentions two sunspot investigators who failed to find any connection between unusual sunspot activity and abundant crops, but reflected that bumper crops do not always accompany industrial prosperity. Their prosperity curves did not fit well with ordinary sunspot graphs, either, but when they made a graph showing the up-and-down deviations from average activity, between 1876 and 1930. it matched a curve showing the volume of manufactures very nicely...
...Average Bumper...
...corn crop, "Last year's abnormally short crop of 1,500,000,000 bu. was nearly a billion bushels below average," from which statement I judge that the average yield is approximately 2,500,000,000 bushels. Right? I read on, "This year the estimated crop is a bumper 2,500,000,000 bu. . . ." and I am perplexed. Is this year's crop an average crop or a bumper crop? It can't be both at the same time...
...average corn crop 1900-1936 was approximately 2,500,000,000 bu. Under the restricted acreage of AAA and its successor, the Soil Conservation Act, 2,500,000,000 bu. is also a bumper crop...
...rolling plateau of Brazil during bumper years more coffee berries are grown than the whole world could consume even if it stopped buying from all other coffee-growing nations in South America, Africa and the East Indies. The world annually consumes some 21,000,000 132.2-Ib. bags. For the past six years Brazil alone has grown an average of 20,000,000. This overproduction was a Brazilian headache as long ago as 1870. That year the Government bought coffee to use in paying foreign balances, lost heavily. In 1906 the Government began a valorization, scheme (buying coffee at artificial...