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...Corn & the Queen...
...M.S.U. While Ann Arbor attracted such scholars as Philosopher John Dewey and Historian Andrew D. White, later president of Cornell, East Lansing's foremost teachers were men who spent as much time helping farmers as lecturing to students. William J. Beal unlocked some of the secrets of hybrid corn; Liberty Hyde Bailey began the career that was to make him one of the foremost U.S. horticulturists. Entomologist Albert Cook developed a kerosene emulsion that became a standard insecticide for Michigan fruit...
...Department of Agriculture issued a new, granary-bulging forecast of crop prospects for 1955: the harvest for all crops this year is expected to be 6% above last year's and to equal, if not exceed, the record yield of 1948. Bumper production is anticipated in corn (17% over 1954, and the second-largest crop in history), oats (8% higher than 1954), sorghum grains (up 30%), hay (up 5%), soybeans (up 23%), cotton (30% above the average yield), wheat (5% above the latest forecast) and peanuts (50% above last year...
...from 1½ billion to 55 million lbs. since 1953, and overall dairy surpluses have fallen by a full 54% as a result of increased U.S. consumption and a giveaway program. But last week Iowa farmers were asked to reseal on their own farms some 50 million bushels of corn, deliverable this month to the Government, but for which the Department of Agriculture can find no market and no storage space...
...After the new crop forecasts were announced last week, soybean futures fell about 6?, corn 3?, wheat went down 3? and cotton dropped 32 points...