Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Studying his hillside corn, Farmer Stiles found that a yellow burn from the dry ground was creeping up the stalks. In his bottomland the stalks stood straighter and greener, but they were far too short for August corn...
...drought will probably cost John Stiles and his Maryland neighbors: 10 to 25% in milk, 37% in corn, 50% in late vegetables. In Virginia the potato crop was hit; in Delaware the dry spell took toll of tomatoes, limas, string beans, peaches. Total estimated crop damage in states bordering Washington, D.C.: $50 million...
...Texas, the corn crop was already made. Cotton was not hurt very much by heat. But grain sorghums were in danger. Cattle were being fed on silage. Said the Dallas News: "Unless the drought and heat are broken within a week, the crop and livestock situation could become serious. . . ." The onetime dust bowl got a good rain. But June-filled water holes in trie Panhandle were drying up; feed and water for livestock were scarce...
...Oklahoma, thirstier for rain than it has been for seven years, frankly reported a "bad drought." Cotton opened prematurely. Corn was about 57% of normal. Peanuts were expected to be a total loss. Wheat was less than half of last year's production (29 million bu. v. 61 million bu.). Pastures and stock ponds dried up, made the feed shortage so acute that many cattlemen were sending their livestock to market ahead of schedule...
...hogs at Government urging and on a Government promise of a price of at least $13.75 Per 100 lb. Last week, to keep its promise, the Government finally forbade packers to buy at less than $13.75. This capped the comedy: the Government now really guarantees to maintain a corn-hog ratio that will make it uneconomical for corn to come to market...