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"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."
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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
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"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
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"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead."
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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."
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"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."
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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
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"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."
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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
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"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."
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"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."
Land
"The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually."
Agriculture
"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."
Diversity
"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."
Food
"One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact."
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"The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops."
Food
"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."
Food
"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."
Food
"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."
Energy
"Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop."
Productivity
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