David F. Houston famous quotes

03-28-2025

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.
-- David F. Houston

#Yield #Weight #Acres
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

#Yield #Land #Corn
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

#Country #Sweet #Men
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

#Mean #Loss #Men
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

#Yield #Light #Fields
The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
-- David F. Houston

#Individual #Crops #Increase
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

#Important #Ease #May
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
-- David F. Houston

#Facts #Argument #Prairie
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

#Agriculture #Important #Crops
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

#Velvet #Crops #States
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

#United States #Corn #Crops
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

#Land #Broken #Doe
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

#Home #Glasses #Eggs
Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
-- David F. Houston

#Cereal #Rice
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

#Summer #Spring #Weather

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