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Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Cereal
Rice
Prices
Provides
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Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Acres
Barley
Grain
Weight
Yield
Acre
Feed
Crop
Per
Larger
Succeeds
Yields
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Argument
Facts
Prairie
Scrape
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The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Usefulness
Recently
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The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Crops
Increase
Individual
Particularly
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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 15 days.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Men
Appreciated
Average
Loss
Mean
Sufficient
Support
Wheat
Working Man
Contains
Statement
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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 more exacting crops are planted.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Broken
Doe
Land
Meadows
Waste
Crop
Exacting
Planted
Similar
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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 than the sweet potato.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Animal
Country
Half
Increase
Southern
Sweet
Animals
Crop
Production
Perhaps
Possibilities
Quick
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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.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Agriculture
Conditions
Crops
Important
Obvious
Existing
Required
Service
Staple
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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 regions where they are grown habitually.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Crops
Devoted
Increase
Regions
Effective
Grown
Production
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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 importance in the regions to which they are adapted.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Adapted
Beans
Fields
Importance
Light
Regions
Shortage
Yield
Due
Render
Supply
Value
Yields
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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 South.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Adverse
Cold
Heavy
Particular
Spring
Summer
Weather
Planting
Proved
Resistant
Sufficiently
Throughout
Warrant
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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, as they are, in unproductive grass.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Corn
Grass
Land
Produce
Unproductive
Yield
Feed
Frequently
Lands
Thinner
Yields
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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 the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Barley
Ease
Important
May
Milk
Usefulness
Wheat
Abundant
Feed
Directly
Production
Render
Supply
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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 may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Adequate
Arise
Economic Problems
Food Supply
Importance
Entrance
Generously
Result
Supply
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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 of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Corn
Crops
Importance
Obvious
Quantity
Range
United States
Cared
Feed
Crop
Geographic
Leading
Product
Properly
Therefore
Vital
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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 year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Beans
Excess
Oil
Oil Production
Standing
Acquired
Commercial
Crop
Far
Generally
Production
Previous
Quickly
Recognized
Status
Value
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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 legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Available
Crops
States
Velvet
Abundant
Bean
Crop
Gulf
Relatively
Planted
Possesses
Seed
Supply
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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 made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.
David F. Houston / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Home
Available
Consumption
Eggs
Glasses
Higher
Marketing
Preservation
Supplies
Glass
Immediate
Lime
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