Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imports of silk amounted to $414 millions; of sugar, $369 millions; of coffee, $182 mil lions; of crude rubber, $169 millions, and of wool, $167 millions. In the same period our exports of wheat totaled $192 millions, and of corn $75 millions. In all the above imports, last year's figures exceeded those of 1921-22, while our wheat and corn exports were far under those of the preceding year. Pork and cotton exports showed increases, but they were counterbalanced by the huge increases in all imports...
Farmers' receipts from corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, flaxseed, potatoes, hay (tame and wild), tobacco, cotton and cottonseed, sugar beets, maple sugar, sorghum, peanuts, beans, onions, cabbage, hops, apples and oranges were all in excess of the crop values of last year. The current year, however, provided less crops than 1922 in wheat, rye, rice, clover seed, grain sorghums, broom corn, cranberries, peaches and pears...
...most profitable crop to farmers was corn, which at the high price of 72.7? a bushel was worth $2,222,013,000, as against the 65.8? crop of 1922, worth $1,919,775,000. Wheat proved the most unprofitable crop: at the price of 104.7? on Dec. 1, 1923, the current winter wheat crop was worth about $543,825,000, and at 92.3¢ for spring wheat that part of the crop was valued at $181,676,000- both were worth $725,501,000-which is $147,911,000 less than for 1922, and even $29,333,000 less than...
...undergraduates are for it. Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations demand it. Parents want it. School organizations want it. Almost every-one who knows anything about it wants it. ... The time has come when the United States should do as much for education as it does for wheat and corn and pigs and cattle...
...Corn has been especially profitable. Current prices are very high, and the 1923 crop is estimated at 3,029,192,000 bushels-which is 140,000,000 bushels more than the crop of last year. Its quality, owing to frost damage, is not quite so good, and the merchantable quantity is estimated at 79.4% compared with 85% in 1922. At Nov. 1 farm prices, the corn crop is worth more than...