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Potato farmers are pulling for the bulls. ("It would be nice to have a bit of a shortage just once," sighed one grower.) But eying the piles of stored potatoes in the barns of Aroostook County, few farmers anticipate a price increase anywhere near that expected by the rampaging bulls. Even if the bulls do win, the Agriculture Department predicts that there will be little immediate effect on retail prices. But by June or July, the department says, the overall U.S. potato supply will probably dwindle enough to raise supermarket prices of potatoes back to year-ago levels of about...
...acre of any crop grown anywhere, and is so popular that U.S. housewives buy more pounds of bananas each year than any other produce item. Yet under its golden peel there are a host of troubles, and in recent years United Fruit Co.-the world's largest banana grower and marketer-has had them...
...produce distinctively different wine, most California makers blend their wines, arguing that this assures consistent quality and taste from year to year. Sometimes wine from the year before is added; often the vintner, if his own crop happens to be small one year, will buy the crop of nearby growers. In fact, only the label "Estate Bottled" indicates that the wine is wholly grown and produced on the grower's own property...
...promote the Seven Sutherland Sisters' Hair Grower, the farm-bred New York girls exhibited their tresses, totaling 36 ft. 10 in. in length, at a Barnum & Bailey sideshow. William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody "partnerized" with Dr. David Franklin Powell, alias "White Beaver," to promote Yosemite Yarrow for the cramps; Wonder Worker, to be taken internally for cholera but externally for rheumatism; and Cough Cream, which, it was claimed, "heals diseased lungs...
...admitted raconteur, a passionate hunter and trout fisherman (he made his own skillfully fashioned rods), a talented chess and bridge player, and a voracious reader who wolfed Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad along with the military classics. He was also an unabashed needlepoint craftsman and the grower of prize roses. But it was his job, and especially his military job, that always absorbed him. His merciless schedule eventually broke Smith's health. Last week Beedle Smith died, at 65, of a heart attack...