Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that only 10,000,000 bushels had been moved out by last week. AAA estimated that this year's corn crop was not so large that compulsory marketing quotas need be applied, but corn last week sold at 5? compared to 65? a year ago. The crisis in cotton, where compulsory marketing has been imposed, was so grave that Oklahoma's Thomas, a faithful New Dealer, reported last week that cotton farmers in his State were deserting their land to go on Relief...
Taking his courage in both hands, Secretary Wallace last week set out to talk to wheat farmers at Hutchinson, Kans. and-cotton growers in Fort Worth, and promised to talk next week to corn farmers at Springfield, Ill. "Fight for the program that you have," he urged, then revealed what he thought should be done to AAA II to make it work...
...supposed to induce farmers to limit crops in return for benefits-soil conservation payments, crop loans, crop insurance, Government purchase of surpluses. If these inducements do not work the Act provides for compulsory controls-marketing quotas (such as are now in force for cotton and tobacco) invoked after two-thirds of the growers approve in a referendum. If crop prices continue falling however, Mr. Wallace declared himself opposed to outright price fixing on the basis of production cost, which "would soak the consumer, sink the farmer, and mean uncontrolled production...
...host of rival farm panaceas. Most popular is the long talked of "domestic allotment" plan, permitting unlimited crop production and assuring producers a profit on that part of their crop consumed in the U.S., the balance to be sold abroad at world prices. At Fort Worth Henry Wallace told cotton farmers that domestic allotment would be a "road to disaster." Bristling on the platform was Texas' Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald, a champion of domestic allotment. As soon as the Secretary left town, Commissioner McDonald announced he would organize Statewide opposition to AAA and all its works. Sniffed...
Since 1795, when Louisiana's Etienne de Bore grew the first U.S. sugar cane for commercial use, cane crops have been harvested, like cotton, by hand. Negroes mow their way through the cane fields with knives like tropical machetes. Efforts have been made to mechanize the reaping of both cotton and sugar. Several cotton-pickers have been invented which have proved that they can pick cotton, but their practical efficiency and adaptability have been seriously disputed, and they have so far made no visible inroads on the South's labor economy...