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Persia, third* largest opium growing country in the world, issued a statement to the effect that she was ready to abolish opium growing for the culture of silk, cotton, tea, tobacco, hemp and flax, provided she were accorded a loan of $10,000,000 for 20 years. In private, she let it be known that it was to the U. S. that she looked for this money...
...among the Moscow Governmental hierarchy. Krassin, Kamenev and Zinoviev maintained that grain must be exported. Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissaries, wavered. War Lord Trotzky thought it the height of folly to flout the people's wishes and recommended export of butter, timber, eggs, flax, oil to the West and of sugar to the East instead of export of grain. No decision was reached...
...Lauder, Sir Harry. . . . Educ; by Stumpy Bell as a half-timer in Arbroath. Career varied: first, mill-boy in flax-spinning mill, then a miner, now is what the people have made him. . . . Recreations: trying to hit a wee gutty ba', trying to catch salmon and trout, motoring...
Other crops were estimated as follows: wheat, 781,737,000 bushels; oats, 1,302,453,000 bushels; barley, 199,251,000. bushels; hay, 102,914,000 tons; flax seed, 19,343,000 bushels; rice, 32,737,000 bushels; peaches, 45,555,000 bushels; apples, 193,855,000 bushels; sweet potatoes, 97,429,000 bushels; sugar beets, 6,667,000 tons...
...Reduction of the wheat acreage (favored by Secretary Wallace). This is being brought about naturally by farmers who abandon their land on account of low prices. It may be brought about deliberately by diversification of crops and greater plantings of flax and sugar-beets?products which we now import. But, if it is necessary to increase the tariff on sugar to foster beet culture, there will be strong political opposition...