Word: corn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grow the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn...
...State, scraggle-haired, bespectacled Governor Talmadge has bawled unceasingly against the New Deal and all its works. Last week he announced that he was about to stump the entire cotton belt "telling the people just how they are being hoodwinked by this policy of destroying cotton, wheat and corn." Politically proud that he is a "dirt farmer," Governor Talmadge also sounded off characteristically with declarations that Secretary Wallace should be sentenced to two years behind a plow, that he knew little about Undersecretary Tugwell except that "they tell me he is poison ivy to the farmers...
...mysterious "mosaic disease" or "yellows" which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel...
Forbidden by their religion to use motorized farm machinery, Amish husbandmen raise corn and tobacco which are best adapted for the efforts of man and horse. Last year the Pennsylvania Amishmen joined in the reduction of crops by voluntarily curtailing their tobacco acreage. They puzzled many a Washington official, played hob with many an AAA balance sheet, by refusing to accept any Government benefit money. Since then, however, as result of a referendum held in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio, tobacco-growers who do not sign contracts are liable to a 33⅔% tax on the sale price of their crop...
...first day were 14,000 bbl. at from $1.18 for July delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...