Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quaker Perry Hayden, an energetic mill executive of Tecumseh, Mich. Five years ago Hayden launched a dramatic experiment to prove that tithing works. He planted 360 kernels of wheat in i a plot 4 by 8 ft. Each year he has given a tithe (one-tenth) of the crop to the church, resown the rest. This week he and several hundred fellow tithers will go into a 230-acre field to harvest approximately 5,060 bushels...
...first year's tithe amounted to only five cubic inches of grain, which was contributed to the Tecumseh Friends Church I and eaten by the pastor as breakfast cereal. The remainder of that tiny crop was sown on a 24-by-60-ft. plot of land given by Henry Ford, to whose thrifty imagination the lot-from-a-little scheme had strong appeal.* As the project burgeoned, Ford continued to donate the geometrically progressing areas of land, and at last September's sowing personally broadcast a peck of the symbolic wheat...
...Martha Berry, a Georgia schoolmarm, once asked Ford for a $1,000,000 donation to her country school, was listened to politely but received only a Ford dime. Undaunted, she used the dime to start a peanut crop, solemnly sent Ford detailed annual accountings of each year's harvest, eventually bought a piano with the profits of the 100 worth of seeds. Ford was impressed, eventually visited the Berry School, square-danced to the piano, finally came across with more than the $1,000,000 Miss Berry originally asked...
...wheat crop is expected to be the largest ever. The wet, cold weather that delayed corn planting failed to harm the winter wheat which was planted last autumn. But despite a record crop (1.1billion bushels), for every bushel of wheat used to feed cattle at home there will be one less bushel available next winter to ship to hungry mouths in Europe...
...belated attempt to stop these rye-jinks, Chicago's Board of Trade upped the margins for rye trading, stopped all trading in July futures except to fill contracts. Promptly rye prices dropped. But at week's end, as reports of a short rye crop came in (see Food), the price of rye was climbing again...