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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cotton. Favorable weather has caused the Government crop reporting bureau to raise to 15,810,000 bales its estimate of the cotton crop now being picked, an increase of more than a half million bales over the estimate of a fortnight ago. This intelligence is not altogether pleasing to cotton planters, for cotton quotations in the principal spot markets are about 14? a pound, whereas last year, when the actual crop was little larger than the present estimate, the pound price...
...General Obregon, "chickpea king of Mexico" has derived immense wealth from judicious exploitation of his numerous farms and ranches. At one time he virtually controlled the entire garbanzo (chickpea) crop of Western Mexico...
...crop of pedants grew and keeps growing. As part of a regime where one must know so much before he can dares teach, the teacher who has not covered a sufficient territory in the particular realm of roots is at a loss. Nor is he wanted at a university. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy has become the only criterion by which one can easily prove his knowledge of the roots--and, thus, are modern teachers made...
Specifically, the U. S. corn crop this year will be slightly less than last, oats less, potatoes more, hay less, wheat considerably more. The wheat crop will exceed 840,000,000 bu., whereas last season...
...Lane, impressed, gave him contracts whereby on each 10,000 acre unit he was to turn over one-tenth of the crop to the Indians without cost. Manhattan bankers backed able Mr. Campbell financially, eventually turned the whole proposition over to him. Today his idea is embodied in the Campbell Farming Corporation, covering some 95,000 acres. This year he cultivated 38,000 acres of wheat, yielding some 500,000 bushels; cultivated 7,000 acres of flax...