Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution proposed by Senator Ladd of North Dakota calling on Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to furnish data on the wheat futures market in Chicago as evidenced in the trading of the last two months...
...Generating cycles" are cycles which originate in non-economic causes, such as weather. "Derived cycles" are the fluctuations in prices and prosperity which follow them. The farms supply 81.2% of all raw materials used in manufactures. Six major crops-corn, wheat, oats, hay, cotton, potatoes (70.8% of all farm products)-show the 8-year cycle. So do coal and iron (13.4% of raw materials are mined), lagging slightly behind the generating cycle of crop production. Maximum and minimum rainfall definitely occurs in a periodicity of eight years, both in Europe and America. All these concurrent cycles have been observed...
...imports of silk amounted to $414 millions; of sugar, $369 millions; of coffee, $182 mil lions; of crude rubber, $169 millions, and of wool, $167 millions. In the same period our exports of wheat totaled $192 millions, and of corn $75 millions. In all the above imports, last year's figures exceeded those of 1921-22, while our wheat and corn exports were far under those of the preceding year. Pork and cotton exports showed increases, but they were counterbalanced by the huge increases in all imports...
...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...
...most profitable crop to farmers was corn, which at the high price of 72.7? a bushel was worth $2,222,013,000, as against the 65.8? crop of 1922, worth $1,919,775,000. Wheat proved the most unprofitable crop: at the price of 104.7? on Dec. 1, 1923, the current winter wheat crop was worth about $543,825,000, and at 92.3¢ for spring wheat that part of the crop was valued at $181,676,000- both were worth $725,501,000-which is $147,911,000 less than for 1922, and even $29,333,000 less than...