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...grasses, said Dr. C. F. Schnabel of Kansas City, Kans., were misleading because the grass was too old. Dr. Schnabel took tender, young shoots of wheat, barley, oats, rye, ground them to a meal tasting like malted milk powder, found its food value two to five times greater than spinach, carrots, lettuce or chard, its vitamin content up to 50 times greater. Hens fed on this meal laid twice as many eggs containing fivefold as much Vitamin...
...mysterious "mosaic disease" or "yellows" which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel...
...Gritty spinach digg'd i' the dark...
Year ago Huey Long proposed that rhubarb and spinach be declared basic commodities, but it remained for Representative Lindsay Carter Warren to propose a "Potato Tax Act of 1935." It remained for pious Representative Ralph Owen Brewster (former Governor) of Maine to enounce that "Potatoes are the Forgotten Crop." It remained for William Edgar Borah, most famed member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to take himself to AAA's hearings on potato restriction and portentously declare "Idaho raises a very fine potato. I am not quite familiar with the plan Mr. Warren has offered...
Potatoes Anglaise cucumber, filet Chateaubriand with truffles, mashed potatoes, spinach with poached egg, escalope of sweetbreads Bordelaise, fresh peas, and to wash it down, frozen claret punch...