Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corn bundlers...
...corn cultivators...
...corn pickers...
...York Times. Mr. Speers has been traveling through the flooded region, reporting to his newspaper conditions as he has observed them. His has been a story of destitute thousands forming shamefaced breadlines; of stagnant waters, breeding places of countless mosquitoes; of a lost cotton crop and a lost corn crop; of the collapse of the credit system hastily thrown together to relieve the stricken area. Mr. Speers writes as no sensation monger and the Times, though Democratic in policy, has never been an extremist organ, has even opposed the calling of a special flood session of Congress. Yet Mr. Speers...
Crops. Cotton and corn are the principal crops in the flood district. In normal times the cotton would now be waist-high?this year, even in regions where planting has been possible, it is only a few inches out of the ground. Corn should be from five to six feet high?even where it has been planted it is only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway...