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...indications that the world supply of wheat for the coming year would be larger than previously anticipated, wheat prices in the Chicago wheat pit have slumped for some time. The fear has even been expressed that the price of a bushel of wheat might descend below $1.00 on the present movement...
...radical element urged the adoption of a resolution asking Congress to authorize the Government to purchase wheat at $1.50 a bushel to keep the price from falling below that price. The Conference defeated the resolution, however, and declared for cooperative marketing. A National Council was provided for, to act as a permanent body for studying the farmers' problems...
...Lynchburg, Virginia, a woman bought a peck of potatoes for 30 cents. She peeled one and found inside a note from a Michigan farmer: "I got 24 cents a bushel. What did you give...
...supreme as he has not been since before the days of the canning factories. All the old salts have turned out to spin yarns with their visitors from Nova Scotia, and no one who ever displayed special prowess with cod has been permitted to hide his light under a bushel. Not only the technique of sailing and the merits of different types of schooners but all the details of the fisherman's trade have been recited to willing and unwilling audiences, and boasts of great achievements have been brazenly made...
...would imagine that this would be one of the cheapest forms of transportation there is, since there would be no lack of fuel charges, and the labor can be hired for a few cents a day. Yet in 1917, when wheat was selling for about eight cents a bushel at the place of production, the transportation charges from there to the United States were so great that it was unprofitable to ship it. Futhermore, most of the cost was due to inefficient transportation in China itself. The cost of sending the grain down the river to Shanghai was greater than...