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...last week's official forecast was for the biggest wheat crop ever harvested, near-record yields of corn, oats, small grains, rice, peas, beans, vegetables, tobacco. Fruit crops were guesstimated from 10 to 15% greater than in 1943. For the third consecutive year the weather in the principal food-producing area for the United Nations had been miraculously favorable...
...only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...
...been making money. Their gross income in 1941 was $2,500. Living expenses for the year were held to $500. The rest of the income went back into the farm, and $359 was paid to FSA. War and the weather swelled the Walls' income. Good weather lifted the corn yield in 1942 to an average of 90 bu. an acre (during the drought year the yield was twelve bu. - which is no crop at all). The war demand for food pushed up prices for hogs, eggs and milk. In 1942 their gross income soared to $4,200. Despite these...
...Walls' first crop came in 1936, a year of drought and despair. Iowa was seared by sun and heat. The rivers dried up, the corn wilted, the oats burned into worthlessness. Wall sold the two brood sows for $30 to pay Doc Brinker's bill for delivering Joan, their first baby. Then he went on WPA to earn money for food and interest on the bank loan...
Barring disaster, his 42 acres of tall tasseling corn will be worth at least $2,500 in October. There is hay in the barn, and 46 hogs and eight milk cows. And Carolyne has a steady income from her flock of 140 laying hens, 200 pullets and 100 cockerels...