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...inch of rain in four months, there was no grass for cattle. Farmers tramped their dusty fields watching their dwarfed stand of gram shrivel and perish. A baking sun raised temperatures to 90°, to 100°. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. Towns rationed their water supplies. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average. 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions as gross overestimates. Farmers planting corn raised clouds of dust...
Great black clouds of insects hummed softly over eastern Arkansas last week. Above waiting fields the sun rose higher each day but on many a farm spring planting had stopped dead. Some farmers tied smudge-fire buckets to their plows, tried to go ahead. Others gave up, herded their livestock into barns, circled them with smudges. Still others, too late, found their horses and mules choked, sucked, poisoned. By the week's end nearly 1,000 horses & mules lay dead in their tracks, and desperate farmers were crying to Red Cross and Government for relief...
Serious, hardworking Son Edward has learned a lot about the packing business since he graduated from Princeton in 1926, pulled on high boots, began prodding Wilson & Co. cattle through Chicago's stockyards. For a time he helped buy livestock, later became manager of the small-stock (veal & mutton) department. Last year he was elected a director. Last week he declared: "Dad will probably be busier than ever, for in addition to his regular duties he will be teaching me the business. But maybe in five years or so he might want to spend more time riding and playing golf...
...Traylor got his start in the cattle pens. As a Texas banker he had to be an expert on livestock loans. He learned the subject so thoroughly that his reputation spread to St. Louis and on to Chicago, whither he went in 1914 as vice president of the Live Stock Exchange National Bank. During the War the late James B. Forgan, chairman of First National, was asked by the Federal Reserve to help select a man for the Treasury certificate drive in Chicago. He called for a list of Chicago bank presidents. "There's your man," he said...
...price at which meat found its market was often too low, but that a market was found meant that the money received would buy more livestock...