Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 BEEF BALED LIKE HAY OR COTTON 



All edible scrap meat in the packing-house is baled together and packed away in a 

 freezing room to await conversion into potted beef and other similar products. Note the 

 ice on the pipes. 



acreage under cultivation in the United 

 States, two and one-third times as large 

 as that of the entire world today (see 

 pages ioi and 105). 



It is certainly not unreasonable to be- 

 lieve that the average farmer of the 

 United States in future years will do as 

 well as the average boy of the corn club 

 today. When we remember that the 

 youthful enthusiasts of the corn clubs of 

 today will be the farmers of tomorrow, 

 it probably is not too much to hope that 

 the time is less than a generation distant 

 when the United States can add billions 

 of bushels of corn to the needs of a 

 growing race. 



It is fitting that the Americas should 

 produce approximately three-fourths of 



the world's corn, for corn is a true Amer- 

 ican. It was here when Columbus came 

 to the Xew World, and the early col- 

 onists left a record of the fact that they 

 learned the lesson of its use from the red 

 men. 



BARLEY AND RYE 



We who have spent all of our lives in 

 the United States have little realization 

 of the important part barley and rye play 

 in the market baskets of many countries, 

 for beyond a little barley broth and an 

 occasional loaf of rye bread, the Ameri- 

 can does not often meet these cereals at 

 meal time. Yet in Russia, in southeast- 

 ern Europe, and in parts of Asia barley 

 and rve meal are the raw material of the 



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