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...Adel, Iowa, Mrs. Samantha Burns died in the Dallas County Home where she had peeled a bushel and a half of potatoes daily for 35 years, equivalent to 32 car-load...
...domestic consumption basis in grain if stock feeders would use wheat. . . . There isn't a bushel of grain too much in this country now. But a lot of damned rubes are doing what their grandfathers did, selling wheat at 70? a bushel and buying corn at $1 for feed...
...controvert. You have been grossly imposed upon. . . . We have kept an accurate weekly record of wheat and wheat products prices for years and keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour, Omaha in car lots, for that date was $6.50 per barrel. Bran, $27.50 per ton and shorts $33.50 per ton. Last Friday, Aug. 8, 1930, the Chicago option was 96 ½? per bushel...
...farmer is selling his wheat here for about 60? now. A year ago he received $1.20. Flour is the same price. Every bushel of wheat milled since Aug. 1, 1929 made the miller or someone 60? more than he made before. The Farm Board has 20,000,000 bushels of old wheat. Why not buy a few mills instead of elevators and give the people the flour based on present price of wheat? Flour retails here about $2 for a sack of 48 lb. When wheat was 60? some 15 years ago we bought flour at 85? per sack...
...Kansas farmers declare the cost of producing a bushel of wheat is about 80? though Wheat Farming Corp. contends it can raise wheat...