Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coup in 1917, declared in Berlin, where he lives in exile, that Russia is in the grip of that apocalyptic horseman, Famine. Said he: "It is not to be wondered at that, in a Province where the harvest is officially recognized as insufficient, peasants are pillaging trains loaded with wheat and eat a mixture of the bark of trees and horse refuse. Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia. This time an American relief association will not come. The Bolshevist policy has closed the door to it. They will know this...
...breakfast table one morning last week, according to their several dispositions, they found their parents reading with serious mien the editorial page of The New York World. Little did they know what seemingly diabolical plots were being hatched against them. Had it been otherwise, their post-toasties, shredded wheat or bran would have been pushed aside in a paroxysm of childish petulance...
...will not have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin X.-Dr. Barnett Sure, University of Arkansas...
...branches of agriculture save one. Yet the program laid out by the President for the Conference calls for a permanent prevention of emergencies rather than the solution of one existing problem. Already Leland Stanford University, in a review of the last crop year, is crying warning to wheat farmers not to increase their production?that their profit this year is an accident dependent on an unusually good crop in this country and crop failure elsewhere in the world. This is indeed true. The world crop of wheat is 11% less than last year...
...provide means of preventing depression from overproduction. But the attempt of the Conference in finding a permanent solution for the problems of overproduction may well become ridiculous within the course of a decade or two, for the reason that there will be no problems of overproduction. Even a bumper wheat crop, such as that of the present year, will no longer supply a surplus for export in 25 to 35 years at the present rate of population increase in this country Already per capita crop production is 5% less than in the five years before the War. Meantime, the need...