Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final estimate of the farm value of American crops as of Dec. 1, made by the Department of Agriculture, places the figure for 1923 at $8,322,695,000. This represents an increase of $800,000,000 over the crops of last year, and is about $2,000,000,000 more than crop values in 1921. It is obvious that the farmer is finding his way out of the great agricultural depression...
...Democratic Party, the pre-eminent candidate is McAdoo, with Underwood as a less favored rival. But the Democrats apparently will bring out a crop of favorite son candidates, not making national pre-Convention campaigns, but each going to the Convention with all or a part of his state's delegation. Such men are Senator Glass of Virginia, Senator Ralston of Indiana, Governor Smith of New York, Governor Bryan of Nebraska. The activities of the four leaders of the field...
...establishing records and precedents. We have the man who has eaten the greatest number of peanuts, and the man who has eaten the greatest number of salted peanuts, and the man who has eaten the greatest number of peanuts and salted almonds mixed. Similarly we have a large crop of "first women"-the first woman street car conductor, the first woman iceman, the first woman judge...
...long awaited final estimate of cotton production for 1923 made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture placed the current crop at 10,081,000 bales. This figure, although 167,000 bales un der the Government estimate of Nov. 2, was still larger than some of the trade had anticipated, and in consequence cotton prices at first fell off somewhat on the N. Y. Cotton Ex change, but only to rise still higher when the full significance of the figures was realized. The bales with which the estimate deals weigh 500 pounds, and thus the crop should amount...
Among the states, Texas led with an estimated crop of 4,290,000 bales; next came North Carolina with 1,020,000, South Carolina with 795,000, Arkansas and Oklahoma with 620,000 apiece, Alabama with 600,000, Georgia with 590,000. Production in Texas is just 1,000,000 bales greater this year than in 1922, and more than 2,000,000 bales ahead of the output...