"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, Excess, Oil, Past

23

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Food quotes

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Food, Gold, Song, World

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Food, Humor, Truth, Life, Economy

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

Food, Machine, May

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Key

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Food, Passion, Happiness, Desire

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen, American Director

Food,

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

Food, Sin, Crime, Enjoyment

"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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Food, Being, Chance, Company

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Food, Conversation, Wit

"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Food, Humor, Irony, Reality

Explore more quotes by David F. Houston

"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 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."

Food

"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

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

Argument

"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."

Food

"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."

Home

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

Food

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

Productivity

"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."

Food

"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."

Food