Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fields, one farm produced 52 bushels an acre, another 75. Fearing that no one would believe him, Harry Corbet of Alfalfa County got the State Board of Agriculture to certify that his four acres of bottom land had yielded a whopping 83 bushels an acre. With 80% of the crop cut, Oklahomans joyfully boosted their estimates to 88 million bushels, hoped to do even better...
...thing about the fine crop was that the stalks were stunted; no man could stand waist-deep in most Oklahoma wheatfields. But the heads of the wheat were astonishingly fat. Many had what appeared to be double heads. When he first picked some samples, the Oklahoma Experiment Station's Dr. A. M. Schlehuber, who has done wheat research for 17 years, thought that he had found a new variety. But as the telescope-like heads turned up on one variety after another, he discarded his theory, confessed: "I don't know...
What had happened? In Washington last week, a dollarwise businessman, temporarily turned ECA official, looked up from his crop reports and exultantly pointed out some world food facts: wheat fields all over Europe are rich with promise; ECA countries' estimated crop of 30 million metric tons is only 5% under prewar production; the U.S., with the second-largest crop in its history-and some help from Canada-can make up what Europe needs...
Across the rolling lands of Texas and Oklahoma, sweating harvesters drove their clanking combines in echelon, cutting wide swaths through the endless fields of golden wheat. As the winter wheat harvest hit its full stride last week, farmers were hard put to find a place for their bumper crop. In such railroad centers as Burkburnett, Tex., every available elevator was full to overflowing; shippers, caught by the shortage of railroad cars, were forced to dump the harvested grain in piles along the streets...
Agriculture had predicted a good but unexciting harvest. Last week, totting up farmers' estimates after a month of moderate sun and providential rains, a whopping 75,000,000 bushels was added to the total. Barring bad weather, the Government said, farmers could expect a crop of 1,192,425,000 bushels, second only to last year's record 1,364,919,000 bushels...