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...crop rotation they fit neatly into the place of oats, making a four-year cycle of corn, soybeans, wheat, clover. They are an ideal catch crop where early seedings of other crops have failed and will grow in the 100 to 120 days between a late spring harvest and a fall planting. They can be planted any time from corn-planting time (about April 15 on) to midsummer, a great convenience to season-bullied farm labor...
...labor shortage in the coal industry are shortages in agriculture, retail trades, building. Though Britain has 4,000,000 more acres under cultivation than she did before the war, the Army has called up thousands of farm workers, plans to take 20,000 more after the next harvest. The 30,000 land girls, conscientious objectors, interned aliens and volunteer farm workers do not even fill the gap numerically. With a Government budget of ?350,000,000 a year for emergency construction, the building trades have been calling desperately for some of the 100,000 building workers in the Army...
...upland prairie grew a golden harvest whose rich yield ( 20 to 40 bushels an acre) would more than make up for lowland losses. The crops were weeks ahead. Between rains the farmers worked night & day to keep the lush weeds from choking out the grain. In wheat towns, movies did a booming business while the rain came down, keeping farmers from their fields...
Taxco's second break had to wait for the 19th Century when, under Porfirio Diaz, Mexico's industrialists reaped another silver harvest from Taxco. The Huerta, Villa and other revolutions put an end to the Porfiristas and Taxco took the count again until Bill Spratling blew...
...more acres under cultivation than in peacetime, many farm workers have been drafted, and women's farmwork brigades and mobile labor groups do not make up the shortage. Worst of all, critics point out, the Army plans to draft more farm laborers after this year's harvest...