Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large part of the entire U. S. spring wheat crop was but worthless stubble. Winter wheat on the other hand had already been mostly harvested. Early in June the price of wheat was less than 85? per bu. Last week it sold as high as $1.10. In corn the damage could still be averted by a few good rains, but the possibilities of serious crop failure boosted corn prices from about 60? per bu. in May to last week's high of 85?. Oats were up from a low this year of 25? per bu. to 40? barley from...
...among them were concerned if the market price for livestock for the moment justified the overgrazing of pastures, or a temporary boom in the price of cotton or corn tempted them to forget that rotation of crops was a farming maxim as far back as the days of ancient Babylon...
Curiously, President Matthiessen inherited his interest in time not from his father, who was one of the founders and the first president of Corn Products Refining Co., but from his mother, who was a daughter of the Westclox founder and married a relative of the same name. Now 46, tall, rangy, athletic, President Matthiessen lives at Irvington-on-Hudson outside Manhattan. In announcing a smart increase in GTI's first quarter earnings ($310,000 against $135,000), President Matthiessen cautiously warned that part of the "abnormal increase" was caused by the introduction of several new models...
Oats, unlike wheat or corn, go to market firmly encased in hulls. The hull is used to make furfural, a chemical resembling formaldehyde. Furfural may also be produced from such things as corncobs, sunflower seeds and old leaves, but oat hulls are available in large quantities at convenient places and the furfural yield is high. Three big uses for furfural are in plastics, in refining lubricating oils, in purification of wood rosin...
...Corn, About 2,000,000 acres of prime farm land are required to supply the 60,-000,000 bu. of corn consumed annually by corn refiners. Chief products are 600,000,000 Ib. of starch, 400,000,000 Ib. of sugar, 1,000,000,000 Ib. of syrup. There are also innumerable corn specialties and byproducts. Corn refining has been a well-established industry for more than half a century, yet the annual grind last year was only 50% larger than in 1906. "These figures offer a sobering thought in our program of promoting the consumption of agricultural goods...