David F. Houston Quotes & Sayings
19 most famous David F. Houston quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.”
“One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.”
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