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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slopes ... it would show terraces; alternations of tilled land and grasslands; new forests springing up in belts and patches. ... It would show ... the scientific uses of all the land in the Valley, determined after long studies of soils and climatic conditions. No farmer would be trying to grow corn on land fit only for timber, or wheat on land best fitted for grazing, or anything at all on land best fitted for recreation and the preservation of wild life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Mississippi Remake | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...farms the last bushel of wheat had been threshed, the last shock of corn stacked, the last apple picked, the last potato dug last week when the Department of Agriculture issued its final estimates of the 1934 harvest. Production of field crops was 32% below the average for the past ten years but prices were up 42% from last year, 140% from 1932. Farm value of field crops was $4,800,000,000 as against $4,100,000,000 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cash Crops | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Hardest hit by Drought were corn and oats-both the shortest crops since 1881. Two years ago the corn crop was 2,900,000,000 bu., worth $560,000,000 at a farm price of less than 20? per bu. This year the harvest was only 1,380,000,000 bu. At an average price of 78? per bu. it was valued at more than $1,000,000,000. The oat crop was less than one-half that of 1932 but the farm price had jumped from 13? to 52? per bu. and total value increased in two years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cash Crops | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Since many a field crop like corn and hay is converted into pork or milk before being marketed, the Department of Agriculture's figures did not represent actual 1934 farm income. That figure has been estimated at $6,000,000,000-up $1,000,000,000 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cash Crops | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...custom, two new human animals were crowned healthiest girl and boy: Doris Louise Paul, 15, of Wilton Junction, Iowa and Leland Monasmith, 18, of Lane, S. Dak. For the twelfth consecutive time highest grain honors went to a Canadian, with a one-peck sample of hard red spring wheat. Corn owned by an Indianan named Lux was chosen best of the crop. A ton of Clydesdale draft horse owned by Mr. Wilson's packing company was elected best of its kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Idol in Temple | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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