Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarence Bockes of Conrad, Iowa established a world's record by husking 2,698 lb. of corn in 80 minutes. His record stood unbroken until fortnight ago, when Lee Carey of Laurel, Iowa ripped the husks off 2,779 lb. Farmer Carey's record lasted three days. Then Leo Oeckenfels zipped the husks off 2,797 lb. Farmer Oeckenfels' record lasted five days. Then at Audubon, Iowa Elmer Carlsen, a husky husker of 24, laid his hands on an ear of corn and-whisk! When the regulation 80 minutes were over, he had stripped...
Only about 150 acres of the President's hilly farm are cultivated and his barns and Negro shacks are only now being made less down-at-heel than those of his cracker neighbors. Largest crop this year was corn, with some 100 acres producing an average of 15 bu. per acre - not enough to justify an AAA corn contract...
...Corn. What would become of all the corn that Iowa's young men were husking was last week settled by the Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Wallace announced that any farmer who cannot sell his corn for better than 45? a bu. on the farm can put it in a sealed corn crib and borrow 45? a bu. on it from the Government. If the price of corn rises, the farmer can sell it at a profit and pay off his loan. If the price of corn falls, the Government will take the corn and cancel the loan. With...
Potatoes. Having made a start on his new corn plan, Secretary Wallace started something still newer, his potato plan. Under the terms of the Potato Control Act, he announced the first national potato production quota, similar to cotton production quotas under the Bankhead Act. U. S. commercial growers may not, he decreed, raise more than 226,600,000 bu. of potatoes in 1936. Counting raisers of less than five bushels and growers for home consumption only, who are exempt by law, he guessed the total crop under this quota would be about 350,000000 bu. compared...
...first time the true nature of the action of bulky food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet...