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...statement further reveals that the state quota has been exceeded by many millions of poods in wheat, rye, cereals, feed crops, corn, potatoes, and vegetables...
FARM PRODUCTION for 1954 will be the fifth biggest in history despite drought and strict planting controls, says the U.S. Agriculture Department. Although corn, cotton, and wheat are all down, big gains in lesser crops (oats, barley, rye, etc.) will push the totals to well over 100% of the high 1947-49 average...
...replace Kline as president, the convention unanimously elected Charles Baker Shuman, head of the Illinois Agricultural Association. Shuman, 47, is a teetotaling Sunday School teacher who owns a corn, cattle and soybean farm near Sullivan, Ill. Almost painfully serious, he lacks Kline's charm and self-assurance, but in farm policy, the two men are carbon copies. Both oppose rigid supports and Government controls...
...sales of earth-grading machinery were equal to 30% of production; tractors, 23%; textile machinery, 22%; typewriters, 19%; trucks and buses, 16%; refrigerators, 13%; cotton textiles, 9%. U.S. farmers exported the produce of 40 million acres of land-between one-quarter and one-half of all their cotton, tobacco, corn and wheat. About 30% of all U.S. farm marketings are dependent on foreign buyers, and in 1951 farm-export income, divided evenly among U.S. farmers, equaled $1,100 per farm...
During nine sittings, ranging from two minutes to an exact hour each, Sutherland made scores of sketches-with and without the cigar, separate eye details, hand studies, expressions and color notes ("eyelids appear almost corn color; cheekbones, pink"). Churchill had a few ideas of his own about the portrait, strongly hinted that he should be painted as a Knight of the Garter. Sutherland sketched him in Garter robes, but quietly set the sketches aside in favor of black coat and striped trousers-more fitting, he believed, for a parliamentary gift...