Also a bug from Asia got in to the Hawaiin coffee plants - and they don't have a way to control it, yet.old fashioned said:
This is scary...DH is a coffee-aholic & drinks a couple pots every day. Can't imagine the withdrawal he's going to go thru if he has to cut back much...Bimpnottin said:
My father bought a great team of draft horses in the summer of '41 and got them at a great price since everyone was going to tractors. He was the butt of many jokes that summer, not so much in the summer of 42 when gas rationing kicked in. The government wasn't compleate idiots they knew farmers needed gas to produce food and they did allow gas for that but nothing extra. My father worked the farm with the team and used the gas as he saw fit (black market) since he had his two tractors up on blocks he put the old steel wheels back on them and loaned/rented the rubber tires to others that were waiting for ration board approval for replacement tires (rubber was harder to get than gas, darn few rubber trees in US.) The government even came in and counted the chickens for your egg quota and so you wouldn't sell them off for meat, but they forgot that ducks laid eggs and were good eats too so by the end of the war we had more ducks than chickens. You know that war was when we started to feed most of the old world as well as our own troops.~gd BTW India and China grow a lot of peanuts. South America is aware of the Bad US crop, it is spring there now and many places are planting hoping to cash in so the shortage may be gone by the end of the winter. Greed Works!old fashioned said:I've often wondered if it would come to that again. My Ma & Auntie would talk of rationing & stamps & such when they were kids & not just for personal use stuff, but things like rubber too 'for the war effort' because everything went to the military first & the people got whatever was left, if anything.......atleast that's how I had perceived it.
