Word: growers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slopes, shaking the bugs from bushes into boxes. Other eaters of plant-lice he successfully breeds and sells, but the ladybird is his headliner. He ships to all agricultural states, refuses to disclose the names of his customers fearing competition and possible price-cutting. He estimates that a grower can police his land with Bogue ladybirds at a cost of 15? or 20? per acre as against the dollar or more that spraying would cost...
...Francis Ouimet, captain; George T. Dunlap Jr., Harry Chandler Egan, Johnny Fischer, Johnny Goodman, W. Lawson Little Jr., Max Marston, Gus Moreland, Jack Westland. Notable was the dropping of McCarthy, Seaver, Johnston and Voigt. More notable was the selection of Chandler Egan, 50-year-old Oregon fruit grower who won his first national amateur championship 30 years ago, dropped out of national play for 20 years, came back strong in 1929. In last year's national amateur he defeated Johnny Goodman, open champion, in the first round of match play. Golf enthusiasts happily anticipated a colorful match between Egan...
...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...
...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...