Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal board is required to help co-operative farm associations dispose of their price-depressing surpluses...
President Hoover refused to become entangled in the legislative details of a farm relief bill. He pointed to his St. Louis campaign speech for a general outline of his wishes, whereupon the Senate committee had it solemnly read into its hearings...
...specific farm plan loomed up out of the fog of conflicting testimony. These facts, though, were developed...
Some 30 miles northwest of Chicago is a model farm. It is operated wholly by electricity. Cows are curried with vacuum cleaners, milked with suction machinery. Automatic clocks flash strong lights on roosting hens in the evening and before dawn to arouse them to the possibility of laying extra eggs. Feed is ground and mixed by electrical machinery. Humming motors run corn-husking devices. Electric clocks dump pecks of oats into feed bins at 5 a. m. Electricity warms incubators where motors revolve the eggs periodically. Chicks are automatically herded under ultraviolet rays to ward off the pip. Electric heaters...
Properly enough, this model farm is the property of Public Utility Tycoon Samuel Insull who operates it as a semi-advertisement of the Electric...