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...Corn Crop, estimated at 2,800,000,000 bu. on July 1, 2,120,000,000 bu. Aug. 1, had declined to 1,983,000,000 bu. on Sept. 1 as a result of the Drought. This harvest would be the smallest in 29 years. Two months of rainlessness had withered 29% or 817,000,000 bu. of the corn crop, a cash loss of about $775,000,000. The 1930 crop appeared to be 24% less than that...
...Damned Rubes." Last week Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board grew explosively irate because husbandmen were slow to substitute wheat for corn feed. Declared...
...domestic consumption basis in grain if stock feeders would use wheat. . . . There isn't a bushel of grain too much in this country now. But a lot of damned rubes are doing what their grandfathers did, selling wheat at 70? a bushel and buying corn at $1 for feed...
...Corn. Five-year average U. S. corn production: 2,700,000,000 bu. For July 1 the Department of Agriculture estimated the U. S. crop at 2,800,000,000 bu. A month later the drought had reduced this estimate to 2,200,000,000 bu. This week the Department prepared to issue its Sept. 1 estimates. Private estimators figured that the crop will then show about 1,950,000,000 bu. Declared Secretary Hyde last week: "As prospects have declined markedly since Aug. 1, the total deficit at this time (Sept. 1) is no doubt considerably larger." Secretary Hyde...
Plight. The White House seemed a long way from John Farmer's withered little acres but he was hopeful. His corn was gone. His well was dry. His pasture was a tinder box. His cows were hungry. His vegetable patch was a mass of brown weeds. His supply of cash was dangerously low. He already owed the county bank more than he could pay this year or next. Typhoid fever had broken out nearby. John Farmer faced a bad winter...