Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shrewd work, according to his story last week, Wilson discovered that Mr. Legge, while chairman of the Farm Board, had not only bought huge stocks of wheat and cotton but also that "Legge stored these supplies in Atlantic ports, although this was more expensive than storage in interior depots...
...army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) is a sluggish, fat, green thing striped with a nauseous yellow. Army cutworms march on wheatfields in squadrons. Each soldier worm chooses his spear of wheat. Carefully he cuts it down, ignores the grain, devours the root, moves on to the next spear. An army of worms cuts a clean swath across any field it enters, then cuts another swath. A listener can hear the concerted champing of their mandibles...
...northwestern Nebraska these worms wheat annually destroy a negligible amount of wheat- perhaps destroy a 50 acres. But already this year 1,000 acres have been leveled in that area. Therefore last week Nebraska farmers were to be seen at a strange occupation. They were spreading bran mash, poisoned with Paris green or white arsenic, throughout their wheat fields. It is a well-known cutworm remedy...
...speculation, because 200,000 bales would be too infinitesimal a quantity to affect the broad price of a crop that runs into 13 or 14 million bales. And for a shrewd piece of publicity to boost Wrigley sales in the South, advertising men gave Mr. Wrigley full credit. Like wheat in western Canada, cotton in the South is the overwhelmingly important thing in the material welfare of almost every man, woman & child, white or black. As such cotton looms ever-present in the buying consciousness. To make southerners think of Wrigley's gum every time they think of cotton...
...corporation's names were news enough to set residents of Hyde County, N. C. agog. The capitalist poured millions into the company; the company set up huge pumping stations which drained the marshy old bed of Lake Matamuskeet for a mammoth "factory-farming" project. Wheat and soybeans were planted in great batches. First year it rained, flooding New Holland. Second year New Holland was a success. Third year brought a new failure. So it went. Last week Mr. Heckscher's agent exclaimed: "You can't go on with a big project forever if it doesn...