Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dublin, N.H., the 156th annual edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac predicted that 1948 would be a year of bitter winter, fleeting summer, sun spots and crop failures...
More important was the effect on grain. The Government had estimated that 350 million bushels would be needed for livestock feeding this crop year. But the heavy slaughter had cut livestock feeding in the third quarter of this year a third below estimates. So last week the Department of Agriculture lowered its feed estimates to 250 million bushels. Thus, if the Department was right, the grain saving which the Citizens' Food Committee was working toward with such confusion (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would be effected by the reduction in livestock feeding...
...large amounts of wheat at one time, then crowded the market-and thus forced prices up-to meet its commitments. Recently the Department of Agriculture won out on a plan of comparatively small, regular shipments (about 30-35 million bushels a month until next spring). Unless the winter wheat crop, which got off to a poor start, fails badly, the Government should have grain on hand to tide the U.S. over...
...Union scheduled a dance on the Princeton weekend, the inter-House Committee made similar protests. They asked the Union to switch its dance to the Brown weekend, so that the Houses would be certain of a profitable "Final Fling." The Union declined, and for the second time, a bumper crop packed all the dance-floors...
...another prop under high prices, the Department decided to set smaller marketing quotas for next year's crop. Less tobacco will keep prices where they are or boost them higher. Said one Department of Agriculture expert: "We'll make a profit on every...