Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flooded Farms. The floods meant delayed planting this year, probably smaller harvests. Farmers who already had corn seed in faced the necessity for replanting: seed had either washed away or been rotted by too much moisture. In cities and towns, many a Victory gardener found his garden ruined. The American Red Cross estimated that more than 1,350,000 acres of land were inundated...
...your imagination run not, Bill. Imagine that instead of muddy, gaunt lacrosse fields, you see acres and acres of golden wheat waving in the breeze, row after row of corn, patch after patch of tomatoes, and whatever else might grow in patches. And in every acre a sunburned, freckled Ph.D., toiling with scythe...
...harvest, for instance, about which Wallace Woodworth could improvise a pastoral symphony in 100 voices. Can't you envision the swaying bodies of the reapers (brought in by the Student Union in truckloads from everywhere) and the rhythmic motion of their scythes. And then there are the social possibilities. Corn husking bees, with red ears a-plenty. Square dances in Dillon Field House, with chaff upon the floor...
...needs for the 1943-44 season. Moreover, most of the carry-over is Government-owned, and Congress refuses to let it be sold below parity prices (over $1.40 a bu.). Since that is much too high to make it economical for cattle feed, and since the $1.05 ceiling on corn has kept that feed crop off the market, Eastern farmers, who grow only part of their own feed, have been pinched...
...Apple syrup (to supplement corn and maple syrups), made by concentrating the juice of fallen and cull apples to honey-thickness, was announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Research Laboratory at Philadelphia. But its first wide use is industrial: to replace war-scarce glycerin for keeping tobacco moist...