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David F. Houston

David F. Houston

American Politician

Born: Feb 17, 1866

Died: Sep 2, 1940

Any Crop Crops Feed Food Value

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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

Time Food Duty Increase Crops Individual Particularly His Production Farmer

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals. David F. Houston

Food Money Other More Prices Most Provides Than Rice Present

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

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

Broken Old Later Exacting Crop Crops Similar More Well Does Than Any May Often After Meadows Land Planted Waste

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

Food Men Animals Country Half Sweet Increase Possibilities Crop Potato Both Perhaps Quick Southern Than Production Larger

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

Food Great Light Value Field High Beans Supply Importance Render Due Yields Which Shortage Regions Them Adapted

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

Made Grass Older Corn Unproductive Feed Frequently However Left Yields Than Produce Much Lands Productive Less Larger Thinner

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. David F. Houston

Food Country Recognized Has-Been Only Been Human Usefulness Recently

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

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