All David F. Houston Quotes
- Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals. Cereal
- By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be… Available
- Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the… Any
- Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance… Acreage
- For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This… Ability
- It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the… Agriculture
- One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. Any
- The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in… Abundant
- The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. Crops
- The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great… Adapted
- What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for… Appreciated
- In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals… Animal
- The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left,… Corn
- The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the… Adverse
- Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. Acre
- The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which… Adequate
- The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the… Acreage
- The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. Beans
- The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past… Acquired