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...history of the trade. Cash prices have been driven above $2.00?a figure reached only in the years 1864, 1866-9, 1888 and 1916-21. During the years 1884-87, 1892-96, 1899-1903 and 1906, the price of wheat did not even reach $1.00 per bushel. Its highest quotation was reached in 1919, at $3.50; while the lowest quotation was seen in 1895, at 48 cents...
Wheat has gone beyond the much-afllicted U. S. farmer's wildest hopes. Five grades of cash wheat here sold as high as $2.10 a bushel, while futures have advanced 80 cents from the low point of 1924, and 18 cents during the past two weeks. Arthur Cutten, prominent speculator, and Julius Barnes, famed grain expert, both predict $2.50 wheat before the new 1925 crop is raised-old grain traders declare they have never seen such a market...
During earlier months, when wheat reached $1 a bushel and began to climb above that figure, the claim was made that the wheat market was being manipulated by "Wall Street" to elect President Coolidge this fall. But after Mr. Coolidge's overwhelming victory, wheat kept right on upward. It passed $1.50, next it passed $1.75; and predictions now come from Chicago that $2 wheat will again be seen during this winter...
...indurate soil to yield him his livelihood. His experiments and solutions he then reported in articles for farm journals in Iowa and Illinois; and it was these writings that paved his way to greater things than struggling to support a wife with corn at 10c and 15c a bushel and hogs at 2 3/4c a pound...
...without becoming a "grind". It is the undergraduate practice to honor those men who contribute some leadership in outside activities. In its strict sense leadership in studies is a misnomer. A man may stand at the head of the Rank List, but if he hides his light under a bushel, devoting his whole time to himself, he leads no one. However great his ability, the pure scholar spares none of it to the common good, and in consequence is not honored by his classmates...