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...both Messrs. Peek and Wallace, Chester Davis has been in Washington since May when he was appointed to decide for John Farmer just how many hogs he may raise per annum. This he was able to do by virtue of long experience as a cowhand, hog raiser and wheat grower on his father's farm in Iowa...
...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...
...There are two reasons why every cotton grower should go along with the Government's national responsibility. The first is the patriotic duty of making the plan a success for the benefit of the whole country; and the second is the personal advantage of every cotton grower in helping as an individual to reduce an oversupply of cotton and thereby obtaining a better price for what he grows...
...Much of the recent increase in the price," warned Secretary Wallace, "has come as the speculators' anticipation of this acreage reduction. . . . If a grower refuses to face those facts . . . it is his funeral...
...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...