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...house away from light for 35 years and ten years ago was planted. It had been 41 years since harvested. Every grain seemed to grow. The next year I had quite a patch of measured ground and thrashed out the grain at the rate of 45 bu. per acre...
Meanwhile the Farm Board's wheat stablization operations produced topsy-turvy economic results. In the face of a falling world market the Board bought Chicago wheat around 76? per bu., pegged the domestic price at that leve. George S. Milnor, president of Grain Stabilization Corp., declared: "Domestic conditions do not justify lower prices and this company will continue . . . to maintain the present or a higher level...
Winnipeg wheat, out in the world marked, slumped 26? to 28? per bu. under the Chicago level. Liverpool prices, normally 15? per bu. above the Chicago price, were 15? below, at a 1896 low record. No on, not even Critic Coolidge, could say that price-fixing of wheat was not working at least temporarily...
...artificially high U. S. price created a new threat-namely, nullification of the 42? wheat tariff. If the world price dropped another 10? to 15? per bu. money could be quickly made by shipping wheat to the U. S. and selling it to the Farm Board. Chairman Legge wrote to Senator Capper thus...
...Onondaga Indians at a reservation 3½ mi. south of Syracuse, the State of New York last week sent 150 bu. of salt and $700 in cash. No gift was this, but the annual payment in cash & kind stipulated by ancestors of the present Onondagas when the State purchased from them the site of the City of Syracuse in 1795. Reason for the salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from...