Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While cotton planters and governmental authorities debate the best way of exterminating the boll weevil, the returns from this year's admittedly "short" crop are beginning to assume definiteness. Cotton ginned prior to Oct. 18 totaled 6,400,579 bales, compared with 6,978,321 last year. Evidently, as these figures show, there has been no rush this year to send the present cotton crop to market, partly, perhaps, because it is being withheld from sale in the hopes of obtaining higher prices later on, but mainly because there is less cotton than usual to market...
...following year this deficit would be made up by an excise tax on grain at the elevators. The theory is that if this year's surplus is entirely disposed of, next year's production can stand the burden of the tax divided over the entire crop...
...estimated that Canada's wheat crop will reach 500,000,000 bushels, and of that total at least 350,000,000 bushels will be for export. This places Canada first in the world's list of wheat exporters, the U. S. coming next with an estimated export total of 290,000,000 bushels...
...Director of the War Finance Corporation. As far as announcements go, it is still rather nebulous. But its main feature is the organization of cooperative societies among the farmers which, availing themselves of the credit facilities supplied by the last Congress, will undertake the orderly marketing of the wheat crop, especially abroad. Mr. Meyer studied the situation abroad some time ago and reported that whereas before the War European merchants financed wheat marketing, buying grain continuously and storing it until the consumers were ready to eat-on account of unsettled conditions abroad this is no longer the case...
...Significance. In so far as Mr. Meyer's plan, if put into practice, will make for more orderly marketing of the wheat crop and prevent dumping on markets where there is small demand, it will aid the farmer. It cannot, however, increase prices by creating a demand where there is none nor reduce the high cost of production as compared to market prices...