Word: bushelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest single consumer of water is irrigation, which has spread from a few thousand western acres in 1850 to some 30 million acres, sprawled over such eastern and southern states as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mississippi. To grow a bushel of corn by irrigation requires about 10,000 gallons of water; to grow a ton of alfalfa hay, about 200,000 gallons. At present irrigation soaks up about 100 billion gallons of water daily, almost half the water withdrawn by the entire nation...
...harvesting of the new winter wheat crop got under way in the Southwestern states, it looked as if the U.S. would face a wheat shortage of a kind; it might not have all the high-quality wheat that U.S. bakers need. Of the U.S.'s billion-bushel stockpile of wheat, farmers and bakers estimate that only 10% to 25% is usable in its present form by the breadmaking industry-the single biggest wheat user. The rest would have to be upgraded by blending it with strong-gluten wheat.* But there is comparatively little strong-gluten wheat available with which...
Commercial millers are willing to pay a premium of 25? a bushel for strong-gluten wheat. In a free market, this premium would encourage farmers to produce the high-quality grain. But it has not worked that way under the support program. While drought and a siege of rust have cut down on the output of strong-gluten grain, the price-support program has encouraged wheat farmers to sacrifice quality for quantity...
...bought up 94% of the deliverable stocks of soybeans in Chicago, then tried to drive the price up by shipping beans out of the Midwest and circulating phony market rumors of a shortage. For a while, says CEA, the scheme worked: prices rose by as much as $1 a bushel, to $4.08. But then, as the new crop started coming in, the price of soybeans cracked to $2.50 a bushel. Meanwhile. Butler was losing heavily in the declining coffee market...
...Type I" wife. She should be "sound of wind and limb," should not have more than a high-school education, and "should not be disturbed by muddy boots in her kitchen, nor by the dogs sleeping under the stove . . . nor the continuous parade of newborn pigs and lambs in bushel baskets by the kitchen stove. She should be farm-reared . . . It takes a woman a long time to learn how to get her weight properly under a bale...