Word: grower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton has suffered from the absurdly low prices of the past few years," said Farmer Roosevelt, referring to small tenant plantings in past years on his farm near Warm Springs, Ga. (The President has no cotton this year.) "What I am concerned about, and what every other cotton grower ought to think about, is the price of cotton next year if cotton acreage is not reduced...
...three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long ago a Mr. F. E. Dixon of Elkins Park, Pa., an orchid grower with the instincts of a stockbroker, cornered the market by buying every available Cattleya Gigas Alba var Firmen Lambeau in Britain. From a stray orchid of the original Cattleya Gigas Alba, Mr. Lager acquired the piece of his own plant that flowered so lushly last week. There are seven bulbs on this. Soon...
Before the take-off George Nelson Peek's Agriculture Adjustment Administration made two statistical decisions of primary importance. One was that current wheat prices were 30? per bu. below the 1909-14 average, so the Government's "allotment" to wheat growers would be 30? per bu. The other was that the U. S. consumes only five-eighths of its total wheat production, so the wheat grower would be paid on only five-eighths of his total crop. On tap in the Treasury was a $200,000,000 credit to get Domestic Allotment off the ground. Of this about...
...they knew that Farmer Dietzen (his real name) was "Hans Fallada." A lawyer's son, Author Dietzen spent an awkward and unhappy childhood in Berlin and Leipzig but has never felt easy in urban surroundings. Failure as a farm executive, clerk, bookkeeper, estate agent, provision-dealer, potato grower, he failed also with his first two books. Then he married, settled down in Holstein, then Berlin, with his wife and child, and made enough money with his third book to get a house and garden. With the comfortable profits from Little Man, What Now? he bought his own farm...
...crumpled not at all. This extraordinary flower had equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best specimen orchid plant shown by a commercial grower. The little old man was John Emil Lager, orchid-hunter, aged 72. He had grown the Rarest Orchid in his Lager & Hurrell hothouses in Summit, N. J. where grow nothing but orchids. Last week his Show entry of 133 plants, 60 varieties, won a special award as the finest commercial...