Word: crop
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...some wheat grains and other foods were found; that in 1926 a friend sent a few of the grains to Farmer Sydney Cunningham of Alberta, who in turn sent grains produced by his original "King Tut wheat" to Farmer Charles Borry, who grew new wheat from a crop produced by the original old grains...
...customary two-weeks adjournment for Christmas and New Year's if the relief bills were not passed. Congress finally listened. Result: Joint conferees compromised on a $45,000,000 drought-relief bill in which the word "food"' was dropped and the phrase "other such purposes incident to crop production . . ." substituted. Both chambers passed the measure. Sentiment in the Senate over its unemployment-relief amendments also changed and the $116,000,000 bill was passed, omitting the Georgia and Alabama work and not stipulating what wages should be paid by the contractors. Provisional division of unemployment relief funds were...
...farmers to all the taxpayers. To limit production in future, the Board has for months been urging, begging, warning U. S. farmers to plant less wheat, at least 15% less. Last week the Department of Agriculture reported a 1.1% acreage reduction in 1931 winter wheat. Meantime, the new Canadian crop is reported about 30% bigger than last year...
...EQUALLY IMPORTANT FACTS OF HUMAN NATURE. Chairman of the planning committee, Aldo Leopold of Madison, Wis., chief of the American Game Survey, submitted the new program. The committee had found that American farmers can do more toward increasing game than any other agency by making game a secondary farm crop. Six years of compensating game-wise farmers in Texas, for example, have increased good shooting preserves to 2,500,000 acres. They recommended that the farmer be protected from lawless hunters, be amply rewarded for his work.* Quail, pheasants, Hungarian partridge, rabbits, squirrels all thrive on the farmer...
...French cellars lies a surplus of more than 100,000,000 gallons of "green juice," for this year's crop was uncomfortably bumper. "Hitherto we have never attempted to market the 'green' product," said a spokesman for the French vintners last week, "but that was only because the buyers have always preferred that it be made into wine in France. If the Americans prefer, all our classic vintages can be shipped green, and, as they say, 'developed' in their homes...