Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, the estimate for the corn crop has been increased 105,000,000 bushels to a total of 2,982,000,000 bushels, which is larger than the crops of 1914, 1916, 1918, 1919 and 1922, but smaller than those...
...crucial business development during early summer is the prospective value of American crops. The July forecast issued by the Department of Agriculture covering the wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and other standard crops is encouraging. Despite the late winter, large crops are anticipated. The prospective value of the twelve principal American agricultural products, on the basis of farm prices on July 1, 1923, will be $7,829,912,800, as compared with $6,768,208,000 for the same crops in 1922. This gain of over a billion dollars in value this year is, however, conditioned by coming weather conditions...
...cotton crop, owing chiefly to the great rise in price during the last year, is estimated at $1,493,400,-000?about a half-billion dollars better than the value of the 1922 crop. An even greater gain was registered by corn at $2,488,605,000 compared with $1,798,202,000 last year. Increased value was forecast for the current crop of corn, oats, barley, flaxseed, cotton; but wheat, rye, white and sweet potatoes, hay, peaches, apples showed a decrease. The 1923 wheat crop is estimated at $780,771,000 compared with $884,412,000?a loss...
...reciter of our forefathers ? the reciter magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...
...Herbert J. Spinden, penetrating south from Yucatan, found outposts of ancient cultures allied to the Maya, in eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, and as far south as Costa Rica. There are fortified villages, tremendous walls, pottery, statues and stone corn-grinding machines on hilltops, possibly pointing to a curious cult of " corn worship...