Word: wheats
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...given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer"). He also agrees with the majority that the rider on the black horse was Famine ("and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice . . . say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine"). Hoover has something to add from his experience as food administrator in famine-stricken Europe after World War I: "Some modernist might surmise from his 'pair of scales...
...born to the purple, Almond had to scrimp and save for his education. He worked in a sawmill and a gristmill, plowed a straight furrow, shocked corn and sowed wheat and milked cows, and, with the help of a $10-a-month scholarship, earned enough to go to the University of Virginia. At that, he had to quit for two years to take a $125-a-month job as principal of a four-room Orange County school before returning to Charlottesville and graduating, in 1923, from law school...
FARM HARVEST will be 9.5% higher than ever before, despite federal crop controls that cut back planting to smallest acreage in 40 years. Good weather and better growing methods will raise per-acre yield of corn from last year's 46.8 to 49 bu.; of wheat, from 21.7 to 27 bu.; of cotton, from...
...million) Rockefeller Foundation, headquartered in Manhattan: would it help find "ways to provide the people of Colombia with more and better food as economically as possible?" The foundation sent in experts, the Colombian government handed over top-grade land and the search started. At first Tibaitata concentrated on wheat and corn, has since branched into potatoes, beans, forage crops, barley, farm administration, pathology, entomology, animal husbandry...
...hunger fighters have already discovered seed strains that offer a vast improvement over what Colombian farmers have planted for years: barley that yields 37 bu. per acre instead of the usual 24, wheat that yields 56 bu. instead of 29 and matures three to four weeks earlier, thus allowing two crops yearly. Tibaitata's scientists are experimenting with a barley that brings 102 bu. per acre, a hybrid corn that yields as much...