Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grain crop values sagged from 4,008 million dollars in 1928 to 3,800 millions in 1929; cotton from 1.535 millions to 1.426 millions...
Biggest Cooperative. Last week at Memphis the Federal Farm Board laid foundations for the world's largest farm cooperative-a $30,000,000 cotton sales organization built around the American Cotton Growers Exchange. Into the national agency will be merged the cotton cooperatives of 15 states. Critic Lowden. To a meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation last week Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois and "farmers' friend," addressed these words: "If there has been any substantial change for the better in the general farm situation since last year, it has escaped my notice. ... It is unfortunate...
...Cotton. "14,915,000 bales . . . 14,478,000 last year. . . . For the larger crop, producers received a lower price per pound...
Byproducts. "Excellent paper can be made from straw, cornstalks . . . artificial gas from straw . . . starch, flour from sweet potatoes. . . . Rayon from the fuzz on cotton seed. . . . Dynamite, linoleum, flour from peanut shells...
...Employment Service recruited 541,280 seasonal workers-cotton, apple, strawberry pickers, wheat, potato, sugar beet harvesters-also 18,291 general farm workers...