Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada, worse for the U.S. Like a modern Joseph, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics warned: Canada's once-plentiful hoard of feed grain (oats and barley) had been "severely trimmed" by heavy domestic demand, exports to the U.S. Next year there will probably be little enough for Canadian livestock, let alone the U.S., which needs all the Canadian feed...
...warning that, despite recent point reductions on canned vegetables, the efforts of spare-time gardeners are still essential. (Last year 42% of the nation's vegetables were grown in Victory gardens.) Concerning meat, jut-jawed Chet Bowles flirted with a prediction: if this year's crops of livestock feed are only normal, meat rationing on the old basis, perhaps slightly less severe, will return by next winter. Should the feed crops fail, the meat shortages next winter may be "more acute," rationing stricter than before...
...rains had hurt most farmers. During most of the month, field work was at a standstill. To increase the scarce livestock feed supply, farmers had planned a record crop of oats. But less than half the oats in Illinois and Iowa, less than a third in Nebraska, had been planted...
...large as last year's bumper crops. A poor harvest would mean swift national disaster, for grains are the broad base upon which rests the entire agricultural economy. Better than 60% of all cultivated U.S. farm land is planted to grains, most of which are fed to livestock and thus converted into meat and dairy products. Without grain there can be no hogs, no prime beef, ho poultry or eggs, no bread, and much less milk...
...even if the nation is lucky and reaps a bountiful harvest-for the eighth successive season-the grain traders argue that there will not be enough grain for all needs. Livestock numbers, they say, must be reduced 20 to 30% if the U.S. is to have bread for its citizens, corn for its war industries* and wheat for industrial alcohol. When livestock numbers are reduced, the U.S. will tighten its belt...