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...Clarence Bockes of Conrad, Iowa established a world's record by husking 2,698 lb. of corn in 80 minutes. His record stood unbroken until fortnight ago, when Lee Carey of Laurel, Iowa ripped the husks off 2,779 lb. Farmer Carey's record lasted three days. Then Leo Oeckenfels zipped the husks off 2,797 lb. Farmer Oeckenfels' record lasted five days. Then at Audubon, Iowa Elmer Carlsen, a husky husker of 24, laid his hands on an ear of corn and-whisk! When the regulation 80 minutes were over, he had stripped...
Only about 150 acres of the President's hilly farm are cultivated and his barns and Negro shacks are only now being made less down-at-heel than those of his cracker neighbors. Largest crop this year was corn, with some 100 acres producing an average of 15 bu. per acre - not enough to justify an AAA corn contract...
...Corn. What would become of all the corn that Iowa's young men were husking was last week settled by the Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Wallace announced that any farmer who cannot sell his corn for better than 45? a bu. on the farm can put it in a sealed corn crib and borrow 45? a bu. on it from the Government. If the price of corn rises, the farmer can sell it at a profit and pay off his loan. If the price of corn falls, the Government will take the corn and cancel the loan. With...
Potatoes. Having made a start on his new corn plan, Secretary Wallace started something still newer, his potato plan. Under the terms of the Potato Control Act, he announced the first national potato production quota, similar to cotton production quotas under the Bankhead Act. U. S. commercial growers may not, he decreed, raise more than 226,600,000 bu. of potatoes in 1936. Counting raisers of less than five bushels and growers for home consumption only, who are exempt by law, he guessed the total crop under this quota would be about 350,000000 bu. compared...
AAAdministrator Chester Davis were early callers, "bringing the President up to date on our activities." To bolster their corn-hog vote campaign (see col. 3), they later got a statement out of the President in which he declared AAA was on the books to stav. "It was never the idea of the men who framed the Act," said President Roosevelt, ". . . that the AAA should be either a mere emergency operation or a static agency. It was their intention, as it is mine, to pass from the purely emergency phases necessitated by a grave national crisis to a longtime, more permanent...