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Corn. Estimated to be 2,660,680,000 bu.; was 2,900,581,000 bu. last year; sold currently at 80c to 90c a bushel. The U. S. leads the world in production. Next is Argentina which produces one-tenth as much. Iowa leads the U. S. The 1926 crop is excellent in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Rain is needed in Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas. In Georgia the crop has ripened late. Cold weather has injured the Wisconsin stand...
Wheat. Estimated to be: spring wheat 199,595,000 bu.; winter wheat 597,762,000 bu.; was: spring wheat 270,879,000 bu.; winter wheat 398,486,000 bu. last year; sold currently at $1.40 to $1.45 a bushel. The U. S. leads the world in production. Next is India with one half as much. Kansas leads the U. S. for winter wheat, North Dakota for spring wheat. Harvest is almost completed in the North and West. In the Dakotas and Minnesota the crop (spring) was short on account of dry weather, although showers helped the late crop of North...
James E. Howard presented a list of changes which he said the bill would require and which he declared would bring about chaos in industry: Grocers would have to get new scales, new measures (to take the place of peck, bushel, quart); housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch...
...hardy, mentally alert subscribers want this crutch? Does Subscriber Kastner shoot squirrels with a shotgun? Does he, hale and hearty, insist on eating only predigested foods? Does he wear water-wings when swimming? Does he use a bushel basket for a baseball glove...
...bill" representing a carload of smiles. It had been indorsed en route by many railworkers. The second gift consisted of two arrowheads from Fort Minis, Ala., presented by Representative Hill of that state, one to the President, one to Mrs. Coolidge. The third was a bushel of potatoes, "large Idaho russet," sent by the Idaho Chamber of Commerce and presented, on the anniversary of Idaho's admission to the Union, by Miss Toussaint Dubois (daughter of the first Senator from Idaho) and by Senator Gooding...