Word: bushels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season, crop prospects as a whole are brighter than in 1934. Pastures are in worse condition in many sections, but the livestock situation is not nearly so desperate,as two years ago, because there are fewer beasts to feed and water. Spot corn last week sold at $1.37 a bushel in Chicago, a 16-year high, and was actually above the price of wheat (see p. 42). Over 1,000 of the 3,000 counties in the U. S. were now listed as drought emergency areas, including every county in the Dakotas, Kansas and Oklahoma. The Relief Administration figured...
...great corn states of Iowa and Illinois, the temperature rose to 115° and in the grain pit corn kept pace, next day mounting a full 4? to $1.16 a bu. This put democratic corn ahead of aristocratic wheat ($1.14 a bushel) for the first time in six years. Next day September-delivery corn rose 3!^ to $1.igf, a price unequaled since the great days when War-starved Europe bought all the U. S. grain it could get. and cash corn sold...
Meanwhile corn truckers were paying farmers better than $1 a bushel at the farm and spot corn in Chicago was bringing as much...
...fibre are then separated, leaving corn "gluten," and starch, which are separated by flotation. The corn "gluten" which contains approximately 30% unremoved starch, is combined with the hull, fibre and steep water to make a product - corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry. For each bushel of corn ground, approximately 7 gal. of 4°-5° of Be' "steep water" are obtained. Based on a yearly industry grind of 60,000,000 bu., the amount of "steep water" amounts to approximately 400,000,000 gal. instead of quarts as published...
...once strongest political front. With his tongue in his apple cheek he called attention to the dreadful price-slumps which had not followed the demise of AAA: "President Roosevelt on May 30, 1935, prophesied that 'if we abandon crop control, wheat will immediately drop to 36? a bushel and cotton to 5? a pound.' He felt the same about hogs. I do not know how long a time there is in 'immediately.' It is more than a week...