Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After much toil and tribulation, the packing industry has at length arrived at the haven of prosperity. In 1924 demand for packing products held up well, while the short corn crop made the supply of hogs coming to market small. This enabled the packers to get good prices and at the same time reduce inventories...
...present, according to Armour & Co., the packing outlook is excellent. With nation-wide prosperity, there is an active demand for packing products, especially those derived from hogs. The very large corn crop of this year also gives assurance of an ample hog supply...
Many railroads depend for their prosperity on the crops grown in their particular area. Thus there are "wheat" railroads, "cotton" railroads, "corn" railroads. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is unique in depending for its destinies on the potato...
...recovery from the agricultural depression of 1920-1921 has been accomplished step by step and industry by industry. In 1921 dairying began to enjoy stabler conditions. In 1922 cotton recovered from the worst of its post-war slump. Hogs brought better prices in 1921 and 1922. Corn rallied in 1923 and wheat last year. All this while the cattlemen, however, have been vainly looking for brighter skies. Only recently here conditions favored this long depressed industry...
Increased Canadian and European wheat crops, as well as the mishaps attending our own winter wheat this year, will render 1925 a much less profitable year to wheat growers than 1924. Yet a mammoth corn crop is now apparently under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival...