Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the small towns, bringing death and destruction. Wild ducks, flying north, alighted on small lakes of rain water in the bottomland pastures. In Ohio, the cherry trees refused to bloom. In Illinois, some farmers gave up hope of putting in oats and decided to plant the acreage to corn or soy beans. Even light tractors bogged down in the squishy Missouri soil; one disgusted farmer near Independence sowed a 250-acre area in clover from an airplane. In the Dakotas, the Red River was flooding, and the seeding of spring wheat was only half done...
Even in the great winter-wheat fields of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, where the biggest crop of all time is in prospect, the growth was ten days behind schedule; farmers had been forced to replant early corn and cotton. Many had not been able to plow for row crops...
Last week a TIME correspondent visited 59-year-old Adolph Barke on his 200-acre farm in southern Minnesota near the Iowa line. Barke raises cattle, pigs and sheep, keeps 350 chickens. Besides pasture land, he expects to have 60 acres in oats, 30 in corn, six in flax (which the Government is subsidizing...
...before shaving, which he does at night so that a thin stubble will protect his face when the sun is bright). Next day, he rose at 5:45 a.m. as usual, took one look at the soaked fields. If the weather didn't dry up soon, the corn would be late going in, and it might be soft, come harvest time. Soft corn made poor feed...
...Farmer Barke was not too worried. The rain would stop some time, and the flax and corn would get in all right. He had bred 25 sows for fall farrow to make up for his spring shortage...