Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farmer Hans Schweiger explained his position last week: "My farm will yield 6,000 marks this year, from which I'll have to deduct 500 for taxes, 500 for the blacksmith, and 1,000 for seed and fertilizer. That leaves me 4,000. A pair of shoes for my wife costs me 800. I consider myself lucky when some city fellow brings me a few nails or machinery to trade in for bread and potatoes." Said Farmer Friedrich Sticht grimly: "Before the farmers starve, every single city dweller will starve first...
Over the years, Saskatchewan wheat farmers had spent many a sleepless night worrying how to meet the mortgage. On an average, they had to net $12 an acre before they showed a profit. In 1927, they averaged $18.91, but in 1932 the yield skidded to $4.76, which spelled wholesale defaults and forced sales...
...ambitious plan for solution of this problem, blueprinted on the TVA model for the states of Sinaloa, Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, is to add thousands of square miles of newly arable land (see map). That, he hopes, will not only ease the pressure of population, but will yield corn and wheat enough to enable Mexico at last to feed itself. Chances are that most of these acres will be developed as small tracts, under private ownership. Significantly, Aléman's first agrarian measure was a law protecting the medium-sized farms that survived the land expropriations from...
...Gunderson thinks that the statewide campaign will cost nearly half a million dollars for DDT alone. But freedom from flies will make livestock fatten faster, increase the milk yield, improve public health. "Besides," he says, "what's a man's Sunday morning sleep worth to him when there's a fly in the room...
Last week's gift, in the form of oil properties estimated to have a total yield of 40 to 80 million barrels, will establish the Cullen Foundation. The money will go for various educational, health, and charitable purposes, but chiefly to the University of Houston and the new Texas Medical Center. Said Cullen: "My wife and I are that selfish we wish to see our money spent during our lifetime, so that we may derive great pleasure from...