Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Agriculture came out of a brown study and announced its June estimates for 1925 grain crops. The most interest was displayed in the wheat estimate, for the emissaries of agriculture traveling through the wheat belt had found the winter wheat, which constitutes about two thirds of the wheat produced in this country, short of stalk, thin in stand†, short of head-, with heads not well filled or empty...
...Winter wheat 407,000,000 bushels...
...about principally because of poor weather conditions. The number of acres planted in wheat is less than half of one per cent below last year's acreage, but the expected crop is more than 24% less. The estimated yield (number of bushels per acre) is very low. For winter wheat, it is only 12.4 bushels-less than it has been in 20 years. A cool, dry May was largely responsible...
...fast Army riders, who won a 19-0 victory over Virginia Military Institute last Saturday, and who had been picked as Yale's probable opponent in the finals, before the tournament began, in spite of the fact that Harvard defeated them in the West Point riding ring last winter...
...long winter. The balmy days of Spring were deceptive, for the nights were frosty and cold. But at last the burning sun promises to scorch everything in sight for three long months, mists of steam are rising from the rice fields, and the annual Summer war is on again in China...