Word: harvested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, retired last week to his model farm at Tchankaya near Angora for his annual vacation. Active, he was soon in the fields, mingling with the workmen, superintending the harvest, himself driving a snorting, clanking mechanical reaper. Only the Ghazi's large panama hat showed the neighbors which were the laborers, which the Victorious...
...Harvest, thresh and ship a wheat crop...
...Board's first problem was wheat. Here Nature had already started helping the Hoover administration. Last week the Department of Agriculture announced crop estimates. Forecast was a wheat harvest of 834,000,000 bushels (1928: 902,000,000 bu.; 1927: 878,000,000 bu.). Great had been the crop shrinkage since the spring estimates. Reason: Hot winds, drought, severe insect damage. Bad weather conditions in Canada and improved world demand brightened the outlook. The Chicago wheat pit reflected these conditions. Prices, on the rise for the last month, went higher. July deliveries touched $1.29 per bushel, a 35 cent advance...
Wheat was the Board's primary problem. Between the Board and that crop, the harvest of which was moving north out of Kansas at the rate of 25 miles per day, a hard-driven race had developed. The Board's first aim was to interpose its relief machinery before this year's wheat crop heaps up on last year's carry over and again depresses prices. A scant two months remained in which to erect dikes against the grain flood. In that time a wheat advisory council had to be named by the Board. The council...
...still searching for a wheat representative on his Farm Board and having a hard time finding someone satisfactory to the varying shades of political opinion in that major branch of husbandry. When Chairman Legge accepted his appointment, he was in a Kansas wheat field, watching the progress of the harvest, pondering the great problem that lay ahead of his Board...