"It is obvious that the greatest and most……" — David F. Houston
"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 staple food crops."
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David F. Houston
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19 Quotes by David F. Houston
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Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
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By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies…
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Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that…
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Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity…
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For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet…
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
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The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat…
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The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
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The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and…
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What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support…
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In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food…
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The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed…
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