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Barrels of sorghum molasses that the soldiers could not carry off were overturned in the basement and this syrup scraped from the brick floor was the family's only sweetening for some weeks thereafter...
...promise him? Some people are living in your other house and won't pay rent and won't get out. Someone stole the top off the stove and broke two windows. Your cross-cut saw is gone and so is that gallon of sorghum. I'd have written sooner to tell you they stole your last four chickens, but I couldn't find a stamp. The moths are in the clothes and two blankets. Both children have mumps. Harry says he will sign your bond if the weather fairs...
Jerusalem Artichokes are sunflowers which have a starchy, tuberous root. They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need...
Foods. "We are neglecting whole wheat bread, crusty bread, raw vegetables, sorghum molasses and unsalted butter. We ought to eat our lettuce just as it grows. Instead we cut it up first into tiny bits so that we won't have to chew it. This nation today is consuming sugar at the rate of 100 pounds a person a year, as against 30 pounds before the Revolutionary War. That's another failing on our part, our national tooth is too sweet."-Professor John A. Marshall, University of California...
Farmers' receipts from corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, flaxseed, potatoes, hay (tame and wild), tobacco, cotton and cottonseed, sugar beets, maple sugar, sorghum, peanuts, beans, onions, cabbage, hops, apples and oranges were all in excess of the crop values of last year. The current year, however, provided less crops than 1922 in wheat, rye, rice, clover seed, grain sorghums, broom corn, cranberries, peaches and pears...