Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin X.-Dr. Barnett Sure, University of Arkansas...
Whereas wheat has risen about 50% in price during the past year, corn about 70%, oats about 40%, hogs about 40%, lambs about 25%; and whereas cotton, though lower in price is compensated by a larger crop, yet the prices for range cattle remain persistently low. Fattened cattle, from the cowbelt have risen some-what in price. But the raisers of range cattle have had no profit since 1921 and most of them are "broke." What they need, it is said, is liberal financing, on easy terms...
...report told of the great, although somewhat uneven, recovery which agriculture had made: wheat, the great gainer; corn, hogs, cotton, livestock, holding their own; dairy and poultry products somewhat behind. But it looked forward to a farm income of 12 billion dollars for 1924-25, as compared to 11½ billion dollars the year previous, and 9½ billion dollars in 1921-22. It suggested that cooperative marketing might disappoint those who have very great hopes of it, and expressed the opinion that, in aiding the movement, the Government's assistance would be of most value if confined...
...generally considered the centre of the business, although Texas, with 205,000 acres in peanuts, leads all other states in output. Peanuts are grown extensively through the historic river plantations of Virginia; and one secret of Southern hams is said to consist in feeding hogs peanuts instead of corn and other food. In recent years, it has been observed that certain Mediterranean ports had suddenly become large importers of peanuts; on investigation it was discovered that oil was extracted from them and sent back to the U. S. under the head of "olive...
There is an old Chicago adage to the effect that the corn crop walks to market on four legs-referring to the fact that most of our U.S. corn is regularly fed to hogs and other livestock. Last year, the corn crop was distributed as follows: Livestock. 2,550,000,000 bu.: food. 100,000,000 bu.: industry, 75,000,000 bu.; exports, 21,000,000 bu.; seed, 20,000,000 bu.; and miscellaneous, 155,000,000 bu. As the above figures indicate, practically the entire output is consumed at home. This year, corn, almost alone among our staple cereals...