Word: mung
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Oklahoma, in the U.S. bonanza belt where anything can happen, hundreds of farmers last week were marketing the last of a freak crop worth $4 million. The crop: mung beans...
...Enid, Okla. (pop. 28,081), a smart grain dealer, Dale H. Johnson, bought mung seeds, begged the skeptical farmers in Garfield County near the Oklahoma Panhandle to plant a test crop. Johnson believed that the beans could be seeded, grown and harvested during the three to four months between the end of the winter wheat harvest and the beginning of fall planting for next season's wheat. He was right. The beans grow well when there is sufficient rainfall in late summer...
...mung planting in Oklahoma was up to 35,000 acres, the yield was 270 lbs. of beans an acre. This year 80,000 acres of mungs were planted, an estimated 16.8 million Ibs. of beans harvested. Most of the harvest was trucked to Johnson's busy grain elevator. In fact, some farmers darkly suspect that Johnson cornered the mung market this year, and is making a killing. He denies it. But he bought all the beans he could get, at from 10 to 18? a lb.. last week was shipping them out to Chinese buyers in New York...
...typical mung grower is Victor Virgil Beard, 31, of Waukomis, who came home after 16 months in the Army. He had been discharged as an essential farmer. Early this summer Beard cut 2,500 bu. of wheat off 100 of his 600 acres of rich flat farmland. As soon as the wheat was in, Beard planted the 100 acres of wheatland to mungs, this fall harvested 17,400 Ibs. of beans. The wheat grossed Beard $3,575, the mungs $3,132-and Beard still has 1,250 Ibs. of beans for seeds...