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Farmers were told that the crop goal next year will be 364 million acres, four million acres more than farmers planted this year for the greatest harvest on record...
Although pickers made good money (12½? a box; a crack picker can make $22 a day), there were still not enough of them when the harvest started. The Government sent in 1,000 German prisoners of war, from the late Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps. The P.O.W.s lived in special camps, were paid 80? a day in scrip if they met the easy standard of 65 boxes...
...Before the killing frosts came, most U.S. farmers had their rich harvests safely tucked into the warm barns-perhaps the greatest harvest on record, refuting the famine worrywarts of last spring. Farm gross income will be over $20 billion...
...cleared two acres of jack pine and brush, near Grays Harbor, Washington lumber port, reinvested his bulbs. By 1943 he had 10,000, will harvest 50,000 this year. He will sell 10,000 to nurserymen at from 20? to $1 each (eight different grades) and replant...
Second, some eight to nine billion lei worth of cattle, food and fuel have been requisitioned. Included in this is a large amount of agricultural machinery and grain. More worrisome is the fact that seed grain has also been taken. The outlook for next year's harvest is gloomy...