Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wheat continued to engage the Board's attention. It repeated its warning to husbandmen to hold back their crop-a warning generally ignored...
...Wheat. President Hoover completed his Federal Farm Board by "drafting" as its wheat member Samuel Roy McKelvie, Republican, Methodist, Mason, Odd Fellow, Elk, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska, where he is still known as a "political farmer." No wheat-grower, he publishes the Nebraska Farmer through which he preaches his agricultural gospel: no equalization fee; no debenture; the farmer must help himself. Wheat growers had rowed so long among themselves over a representative on the Hoover board that the President, impatient, picked Mr. McKelvie as his own compromise. Aged 48 and conservative. Mr. McKelvie anticipated that the reduction...
Last week the Southwestern wheat harvest was clogging Gulf ports. Kansas farmers were dumping their crops on the market. At Galveston a rail embargo had been declared. "HOLD YOUR WHEAT!" cried the Federal Farm Board in Washington as the fear grew that the lake ports would next be stuffed with an excessive harvest. Said Chairman Legge: "It seems unfortunate to crowd wheat on the market faster than existing facilities can handle it, resulting in cash prices much lower than contract prices for future delivery...
...mainland, herded across Russia, stopped for a time in southern Russia, settled at last in the Ukraine, out of sight and out of mind of Great Catherine. Here the Swedish exiles founded Gammal- Svenksby-Old Swedish Town. For over 125 years they and their descendants have raised wheat, cultivated vineyards, and all that time have kept their Swedish language, their Swedish tradition, their Swedish Protestant religion. Of late hard times have come to the little colony. Last week every one of the Gammal-Svenksby exiles returned to Sweden...
William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania R. R., lost six blooded horses, a calf, farm machinery, half of his crop of hay and wheat, when lightning and fire smote the barn of his estate near Philadelphia...