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...Miller's discovery. Over and over cotton planters have heard that their only salvation lies in crop limitation. It remained for the Mississippi State Senate to take the first definite step in that direction by passing a bill (the House had yet to act) providing that no grower could plant more than 60% of his total crop acreage in any one year in cotton, under a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine or three months in the county jail. Mississippi does not, however, intend to cut its cotton production singlehanded. Its law would become effective only when other...
...Foremost of the Pear Orchard" was Mei Lan-fang of Peiping. Despite his titles, he was neither a monk nor a fruit-grower. Numerous Chinamen and Seattle dignitaries who met him at the boat welcomed him as China's greatest actor, come to introduce his art to the U. S. Mei Lan-fang and his company begin a U. S. tour in Manhattan...
Vincent Astor, Manhattan realtor and apple grower, won a prize for growing and packing the fruit on his Rhinecliff estate, at the Poughkeepsie Exhibition of the New York State Horticultural Society...
...package of 20 cigarets is gummed a blue Internal Revenue stamp with De Witt Clinton's face upon it. That stamp costs the purchaser 6?. From the other 9? the retailer, the wholesaler and the manufacturer deduct their profits. For the actual tobacco in the 20 cigarets the grower receives between...
...name of farm relief Vice-Chairman Stone would cut the tax on 20 cigarets to 3? which, he believes, would reduce the cost to the consumer and increase the sum received by the grower. Vice-Chairman Stone argued that such a cut would before long double tobacco consumption in the U. S. with the result that the Treasury would collect as much in tobacco taxes as it does...