Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government would pay the difference to the farmer, giving him higher subsidies than he now got, thereby tickling the farmer too. And yet all this probably wouldn't cost the taxpayer any more than the present farm program because the Department of Agriculture would so skillfully estimate crop needs and so carefully rig subsidy prices that the nation's 4,801,000 farmers, bribed or bridled into obeying, would grow only the amount" needed (that is, if nature was also cooperative...
...campus of Brazil's Rural University last week, the atmosphere was anything but collegiate. In black cassocks and brown robes, 41 priests and monks said their prayers at improvised altars in the dormitory halls, then went on to lectures and field demonstrations on crop rotation, irrigation and rural sanitation. What they learned in their month's stay would be passed along with their sermons and ministrations at outposts in 16 Brazilian states. The course was part of the university's effort to teach Brazil its biggest lesson: how to grow its own food...
Bran Bait. Stay-at-home grasshoppers are common all over the U.S., but the migrating types from the range lands do the most damage. After they reach maturity they rise in roaring clouds, fly hundreds of miles and utterly destroy any crop they settle...
...folk music is the good earth from which much great music springs, the U.S. has a rich subsoil. But little has been cultivated outside the jazz patch, and the U.S. opera crop has been especially sparse. Last week a foreign-born U.S. composer proclaimed that the soil was ready to bear, if only U.S. composers would work it. He offered a piece of his own produce to prove his point...
...whole U.S. crop, the Department of Agriculture, which estimated it at 1,336,976,000 bushels in June, this week revised it down to 1,188,690,000. One of Chicago's ace wheat forecasters, C. M. Galvin, trimmed his own previous estimates by 153 million bushels...