Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Answered the Negro Secretary, who had previously given his age as 43 and had stated he was educated at the old Liberian College at Monrovia, Liberian capital: "Rubber is thriving well in Liberia and there will be a good crop this season. Fifteen hundred acres, planted by the Firestone concern as an experiment, have turned out a success, and 20,000 acres are now under cultivation...
When the Department of Agriculture's estimate of the 1925 cotton crop as of July 16 dropped with a thud to 13,588,000 bales (TIME, Aug. 3), no little comment in the trade was occasioned. The report as of August 1 showed less startling changes. Condition had fallen off from 70.4 on the former to 65.6 on the latter date. Nevertheless, the crop was estimated at 13,566,000 bales-only 22,000 bales under the July 16 figure. Losses in Texas owing to drought have apparently been practically offset by gains in more easterly portions...
Very obviously, the much-heralded 1925 cotton crop has been a keen disappointment, owing mainly to the Texas drought. But consumption is on the mend, and losses from the boll weevil have this year apparently run second in importance to losses caused by the weather...
...winegrowers of France had a fine grape crop, and produced more "vin ordinaire" than was needed. Prices sagged and unhappiness resulted. But nature is apparently inexorable, and has this year again smiled on the French grape grower. The result is bound to be another fine grape crop, more unneeded "vin ordinaire," still lower prices, and considerable bewilderment and worry in the French wine industry. U. S. tourists in France may help somewhat, yet this factor is unimportant. The 11% or less "vin ordinaire" is now a drug on the market; it now sells for 50 francs ($2.50) a hectolitre (about...
Since consumption cannot be increased, production must be curtailed. This may be done voluntarily under the economic spur of large stocks and low prices, or involuntarily in case Nature blights the 1926 grape crop. But Nature, fickle jade, prefers to cherish grapes that are not needed, and bedevil cotton and wheat that are badly wanted, both here and abroad...