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Show 66 flour.1 About 186.3 dry fanning pf mat firs"b EeQr Riv Oity# U,2 and thirty yee later tbla grindQrs to make paetieed n$a was .. meh&d had :t'ead to F.",t\nt 'ella,." }ley- f'arming on a Seientfie basis, hieh involves du mt1lohing t ee.t$r moi$ture began in the , oontetlt rtlO$t likely ' \. a.fter 1910.' !hrough the use of' th da"7 farming v'1;1101 • methode, whea.t planted 111 tbe ttall Md narv(lJSted, tthe rllo1dng July otr AiUgUst, Cradually" eat was ohanged <,'Vet', m inigated to d..."'7 1d 14heat ae more i.n"igat-;r;(i land was :needed tot' tn'ops t4bee.t due to a poPllla:hion inel1)as. in 1915 'Nhen the a wound otb than 'Wheat pl'tlduction Mded greatly nG0U, UtM .0 epened iolt" taMng 'tdth the watal)' s<tXpply being del'i .trom 'Nel1 rather than stree.•• u 'rhe people, 'were em.oura.$d to Qt" wheat t this tixtte beoa'tWe of the high prices ott$:red dnri:ng 'W()wld War 1,/1" oats, barley ant! rye ll1are of l1ttl$ 1mport&aee at first btlb dt'!l'ing the cll$oade ot the 1870t6 (Table 2), the eult1"Q;.on of baJ;'le-y Md (late greatly iner'&a.sed while at the, same ,tilne" Whelit declined in i.t1'wtmc19. !h;i$ mIlY bave b$en due to an 1mtav. orl' w..arket rO,wh$at d;jng the 1870'$ and 1860)h- <b'ougbt of' the 1870' s may ba1T QfQ:tl$$d the deelv,e of some C1"Op$ Qthr than wheat. Oat, barley and r7e 't1erlb prl.marily llSfld a$ itttal teed, 1 In e,ddition.t y> 2£,' ,Ct! t:., p. 11. 2widstoe John A. ,!2Z »:,,; fhe M_*llan. Company.. New to. f Oity.t 1911, p. 3'$. e:rsi ty 1 3Ziukt Worah Ii: •• .tf .m Ohio. l1ni'V'" -1ai p. 2. '1lieagG. Ill1nols, '" ' 4 Hil'lcY..ley" interview. 'Zillk" 2£41' c;t:r. p. 2· ' |
