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…

- David F. Houston

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…

- David F. Houston

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

- David F. Houston

The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, espe…

- 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…

- David F. Houston

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 t…

- David F. Houston

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 t…

- David F. Houston

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man fo…

- David F. Houston

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. Thi…

- David F. Houston