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Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, said yesterday the rest of the dining halls, which serve "modified" breakfasts, will now offer instant Cream of Wheat and instant oatmeal...
...relocated Easterner I have tried for two years to pretend that Southern California has an autumn season. I put corn on the door, wheat by the mantel -and long for a brisk wind to put "apples" in my cheeks. For all my hard work I'm rewarded with a Santa Ana wind and hot, dry, hellish weather. I think it's a cruel price to pay for a gloriously sunny January...
University of Chicago Agricultural Economist D. Gale Johnson is concerned that at $3 a bu., the target price for wheat will be "an incentive to expand production. The cost of the program will get so high that it will have to be modified." Others argue that the 20% set aside for wheat will accomplish little, since farmers will withdraw their less productive land and concentrate on planting high-yield acreage. In fact, some Agriculture Department officials project that even a full 20% set-aside program will cut production by no more than 8%. There is also some question...
Other critics would have preferred that Carter and Bergland concentrated more on export sales. Says Harold Steele of the Illinois Farm Bureau: "This year there was the same amount of wheat on the world market as last year. But our exports dropped to 900 million bu. from over 1.2 billion. The U.S. wheat producer has a less significant share of the market than he had previously...
...contents of the digestive tract are bulky, loose and easily excreted. Grandma knew this when she advised her family to eat more fruits and vegetables in order to avoid constipation. These are good foods indeed, said Kay, but the most useful water absorber and stool loosener is coarse wheat bran, which soaks up three to four times its own weight in water...