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.

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.

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

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

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.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

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