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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...
...photograph was taken with a one-inch lens and the body can be discerned on a clear night with the naked eye. The comet was seen a few hours earlier by Peltier, a variable star observer in Ohio, who saw it without a telescope. In California a Japanese vegetable grower, named Sase, who was busy with his lens saw it also with the result that the comet now bears the name Peltier-Whipple-Sase
...each commodity, to be paid by miller, spinner, packer or processor, and passed on to consumer, would be the difference between the "minimum price" and the actual market price. Thus, if wheat was selling at 50? per bu., the miller's tax would be 25? to give the grower...