Word: plowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because sows will farrow, because piglets will grow up into fat hogs regardless of Government decrees, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been hard put to devise a means of reducing the swine surplus comparable to the plow-under of cotton. Last week A. A. A. accepted in principle a price-upping plan from the National Corn-Hog Producers Committee of 25 which had been grappling with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that...
...gave businessmen food for thought was the Government's estimate of the cotton crop. The 1932 crop amounted to 13,000,000 bales raised on 36,000,000 acres of cotton land. This year farmers planted some 40,00,00 acres but the Administration offered them money to plow under more than 10,00,000 acres of planted cotton, reducing the acreage 27% to 29,700,00 acres. On this account cotton men guessed that the 1933 crop would be 10,500,000 or 11,000,000 bales. Great was their shock to see the Government's estimate...
Most Southern cotton farmers will, hitch "Jude" and "Beck" to a riding "planter" equipped with a 12 in. "middle buster" and a seedbox filled with Maize or Kaffir, "gee" and "haw" aforesaid mules into their accustomed places between the rows, and at a single operation plow up the government's row of cotton and reseed the row with a feed crop...
...President Roosevelt picked up from his desk a Government check for $517 and handed it to stocky, red-faced William E. Morris, first Texas cotton planter to agree to plow up part of his crop. The check was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's payment for 47 acres of cotton destroyed. Spotting a cotton stalk in Farmer Morris' left hand, the President declared: "That cotton looks better than that which we raise down in Georgia." ¶President Roosevelt approved a special N R A 3? postage stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business...
...lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy Bates uprose to say that No. 534 "had survived all sorts of criticism. The theory and design of the ship are correct. The ship is the right size; therefore her new dock is right...