short-crop

Updated: July 13, 2025

This proposition my father readily agreed to. He sympathized with my ambitions, but the heavy burden of carrying a large family with short-crop returns dwarfed whatever good intentions he might have. On the first of January, 1893, those of the family who could work joined me in starting early and working late during the whole of the year. We ran a two-horse farm.

- Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements

Seems to be a short-crop year everywhere. I saw that wheat would go higher and higher, so I bought another million bushels in October, and another early in this month. That's all. You see, I figure that pretty soon those people over in England and Italy and Germany the people that eat wheat will be willing to pay us in America big prices for it, because it's so hard to get.

Frank Norris - The Pit