Word: husbandmen
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...Wheat continued to engage the Board's attention. It repeated its warning to husbandmen to hold back their crop-a warning generally ignored...
Busy though they were, husbandmen throughout the land last week were conscious of these prime events...
Cooperatives Only. In the U. S. are some 6,500,000 farmers, of whom 2,000,000 belong to 12,000 different cooperatives large and small. The Board's policy presaged about 1,000 cooperatives composed of all husbandmen. No farmer outside a cooperative will receive any assistance from the Board...
...cost of the four-day battle to the U. S. was $18,000, most of which went to farmers for the use of their fields, barns, outhouses. Some of the husbandmen unintentionally contributed to war-time realism when they tripped over military telegraph wires strung through their hayfields, fetched axes and hacked apart the communication lines of the defending force...
...Education of the peasants to rotate crops and produce a surplus even above full-to-bursting tummy needs; 4) Speeding up of production by urban workers of goods desired by the peasants but not yet available to them in quantities or at prices sufficiently tempting to seduce canny husbandmen into raising and selling a surplus...