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...Clay County, Ill., on a farm for which the county might have been named, 60-year-old Bunyan Travis lived and labored, sweating in the noonday and sometimes cursing the bread he earned, for Bunyan's acres were scrawny with drought and his back was bad with rheumatism. Finally he got him a cane to hobble around on. Chance came to Farmer Travis last spring when a gang of husky young men from the Southwest put up a derrick on his land and began to drill for oil. On May 23 they brought in an oil well which produced...
...will sweep until the snow flies around the threshing machines in Canada's Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...
...throughout the stubbled country to the south the clattering of harvesters and combines made a rejoicing sound. In some spots there had been drought, in others black rust, in still others grasshoppers. But the harvest was the U. S.'s fattest in six long years-a billion-dollar crop. After satisfying its own needs of some 650,000,000 bu. and adding 35,000,000 bu. to its depleted carry-over reserve, the U. S. would have perhaps 165,000,000 bu. to toss into the breadbaskets of Europe...
...harvest rolled north last week, the red cereal soared to a high of $1.26½ per bu. on the Chicago Board of Trade, registered a net gain of 10? for the week. Even more important than war talk was the disastrous failure of the wheat crop in Canada, where drought & rust in the past few weeks have cut 150,000,000 bu. off early estimates of the Dominion's harvest...
...year. In Kansas, greatest U. S. wheat-growing State, the estimate was 142,264,000 bu. of hard winter wheat compared to 120,000,000 bu. last year. Winter wheat production for the country as a whole will be about 649,000,000 bu., nearly twice that of the drought year, 1933, and 130,000,000 bu. over 1936. Since this is roughly the amount of wheat that goes annually into the U. S. breadbasket, it leaves the equivalent of the entire spring wheat for export -according to the Board's best guess, between...