Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration's plans to help the wheat farmers proceeded on two fronts. Eugene Meyer, Jr., and former Congressman Frank W. Mondell, Director of the War Finance Corporation, set out for the Northwest to assist the farmers in forming cooperative marketing associations. Former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois was elected chairman of a committee to aid them in this effort...
This plan was reliably reported, but does not seem typical of Secretary Wallace. It has the very drawbacks which he has objected to in other plans, that it would tend to increase wheat production, whereas restriction of acreage is what is needed...
...estimated that Canada's wheat crop will reach 500,000,000 bushels, and of that total at least 350,000,000 bushels will be for export. This places Canada first in the world's list of wheat exporters, the U. S. coming next with an estimated export total of 290,000,000 bushels...
...movement of wheat to the East began a little later this year than usual. At Winnipeg an average of 2,000 carloads of wheat were inspected every day. A record was made when a train, over a mile in length, groaned under the burden of 185,000 bushels. Some 8,000,000 bushels were shipped from Port Arthur and Fort William in four days. Most of the wheat is sent to Britain...
...that this ten-year average is partly based upon the tremendously inflated prices of the War period. In September, 1923, the index showed an increase of 2.2%. These figures illustrate a fallacy regarding American agriculture much commented upon lately-the tendency to judge it entirely by the price of wheat. Recently corn sold at the same price as wheat, showing that, even though the latter is cheap, the former is very dear...