Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charlestown, Massachusetts-no, not Charlestown, Black Bottom-not for Art's sake but for pennies. Next came a platform and a Dr. Bunkum who sold potent medicines while I held the crowd. I quit when he tried to use me as an illustration for the benefits of Peppy corn plasters...
When one Fred Love found a single organism, an inch long, with a saw tooth, on his farm in Kankakee County, Ill., the price of July corn on the Chicago Board of Trade jumped a cent a bushel last week. The hand of Farmer Love quivered as he wrapped the specimen, despatched it to the Department of Agriculture in Washington. In that tiny package was a noxious pest, the European corn borer...
...years ago, its forefathers appeared on the American continent, probably arriving in a shipment of broomcorn from southeastern Europe to a Canadian broom factory. After a few years of glutting themselves, they practically wiped out Canada's corn crop. Then a hearty band of pilgrims was tossed about, until they set foot in the U. S. Instinctively, they moved westward toward the promised land. The moth flies at the rate of 150 miles a season; the worm nibbles the corn, does the damage. During the last two years, they have been reported in Indiana and many another state...
Inspectors rushed to Kankakee County to search for the devastating bug; the corn borer committee of the Illinois Agriculture Association called a meeting to plan precautionary measures; the U. S. House of Representatives prepared to act on the Purnell corn borer eradication bill, asking for an appropiation...
Poultry statistics compiled by the Wall Street Journal state that this business is now equal to that of the U. S. wheat crop. Only corn, cot- ton, hay surpass. Minnesota and Missouri reported rapid growth in poultry values...