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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Total crop value: $8,580,528,000, an increase of $84,740,000 over 1928. From 367,082,000 acres harvested, crop yields were 5% below last year's, due to widespread drought.
Grain crop values sagged from 4,008 million dollars in 1928 to 3,800 millions in 1929; cotton from 1.535 millions to 1.426 millions.
Hay bulged up from 1,240 millions to 1,349 millions; potatoes from 251 millions to 470 millions; garden truck from 300 millions to 322 millions; fruit from 480 millions to 506 millions. Most valuable truck: tomatoes, $50,777,000. Most valuable fruit: apples, $184,107,000. Tobacco crop: $285...
"He ain't my Connie," insisted woebegone, calico-clad Tiller Ruminer, on whose testimony the four-Herman Greenway, Joe White, Hubert Hester, Bill Younger-were indicted. She repeated her lurid story of a night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked...
Another witness for the prosecution was a deaf mute who by finger twitches testified he had seen the four attackers carry Franklin toward a big log fire. The State, contending that Franklin was burned alive, exhibited as the corpus delicti a boxful of charred bones. Because a temple bone had...