Business: Green Pastures

Last week the Department of Agriculture, in high good humor, informed waiting husbandmen that 1935 crop prospects were, with the exception of potatoes, sweet potatoes and rice, spectacularly better than last year's. Barley was due for the second biggest crop in history. The rye harvest, which last year was the poorest in 40 years, will be so big this year that AAA has already made plans for a crop reduction program. Despite floods and a cold, wet spring in the Central States, the corn crop was running 50% better than last year. Whereas on...

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