Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago finance has its delicacies of shade no less fine than those of Manhattan's stock market. Example: last week's "corn & hog parity" got alarmingly out of line. Dollar a bushel corn equals $10 per cwt. hogs or something is wrong in the stock yards. Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus...
Schneider went with Dr. C. T. Erickson to Albania to found a school there for the promotion of the agriculture among the people. Under the Turkish regime, inbreeding had been extremely common so that the cattle were of exceedingly poor stock, and the Albanian ear of corn was only four or five inches in length...
...pictures in the present exhibition, called the "Corn Dance", is particularly fine in design. Here is represented an invocation to the deities that have given the corn, provided for its germination, and brought it to maturity. A complete discussion of the major Corn Dance would involve the entire subjects of religion, social organization, and symbolism. From a purely artistic stand-point, the corn ceremonials commend themselves to those who appreciate a beautiful performance...
...Farm legislation. Smith has given no indication of his stand. Farm relief is a problem with which he has had little personal experience. He is not at home in the Corn Belt...
...Lowden's rivals is not to oppose him in the States which his friends regard as his farm constituency, partly because they think Lowden will win these States any-way and partly "because the Republican leaders do not want to give further occasion for seeming unsympathetic to the Corn Belt...