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...require 3,000,000 acres devoted to flax, or 750,000 acres of tung groves, calculated Mr. Williamson. He preferred tung trees because forage crops can be grown between the trees. A machine to shell the nuts and a press to extract the oil are all that a tung grower needs to make his crop ready for market...
Just squeeze a few chiseling middlemen- AAA officials said that was all their amendments aim to do. But who, asked Senator Byrd; ever heard of a bureaucrat not using all the powers given him? No silver-tongued orator is Harry Byrd but he is an apple grower, the biggest east of the Mississippi, operator of 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards. Said he last fortnight...
...Henry Wallace's chief stumbling block. The Byrds are a Virginia family ancient as any, but Harry's Father, Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr., a successful criminal lawyer, made unsuccessful investments, died poor. He left three sons, Tom, Dick and Harry. Tom grew up to be an apple grower. Dick was regarded as something of a sissy and in the course of time developed an uncommon interest in the North and South Poles. Harry likes to record that at the age of 15 he was a newspaper publisher, farmer and apple grower. His paper was the Win chester Evening...
Johns Hopkins' father, a Quaker tobacco grower, freed his slaves in 1807, made his sons stop school and go to work on the family's Virginia plantation. At 24, young Hopkins went into business for himself. The first year he did $200,000 worth of business selling groceries and farm products, mostly in exchange for whiskey. Turning around, he sold the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." For that commerce Quakers expelled him from their meeting but later took him back. He fell in love with a cousin. But her father, fearing effects of consanguinity, forbade the marriage. Neither...
...Warren proposal is modeled on the cotton and tobacco restriction acts: a quota for every state and every grower, a penalty tax of ½? to ¾? per Ib. But the circumstances attending potato control are not simple. Potatoes do not have to go to a gin like cotton, nor are they bought by a few big buyers like tobacco. So collection of the tax and enforcement of quotas will be difficult. It will be more difficult because there are an estimated 3,000,000 potato growers who raise an average of less than an acre of potatoes each. Enforcement...