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...more than in 1917. Thanks to better breeding and feeding, milk output per cow climbed from 3,7431b. to 4,742 lb. annually. (Really good cows average over 8,000 lb.) The U.S. now gets more cheese than it can use or ship to its allies; Agriculture Secretary Wickard recently told newsmen to put two pieces of cheese on every hunk...
...Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture, made a plea and a promise: "Give us half the metal it takes to build one medium freighter and we will save you 900 shiploads across the Atlantic within the next two years...
...Wickard, as head of the Food Requirements Committee, is far from satisfied; because of zooming Army and Lend-Lease demands, he wants milk-processing capacity upped 31% more; eggs, 45%; vegetables...
...Wickard's plea and promise this week seemed on the way to fulfillment. No prophet, practical, dirt-farming Claude Wickard might have made a prophecy, too, about the post-war possibilities contained in row on row of bottles in Department of Agriculture laboratories-test tubes of white, yellow, green, grey, brown powders that, doused with water, again turn into Irish and sweet potatoes, spinach, cabbage, carrots. Thus it may be possible for U.S. housewives to store a 2-3 months' food supply in a kitchen-drawer...
...right off the bat Food Boss Wickard called the croquettes excellent, the stew very good, ordered the scientists back to their laboratories to do the same for mutton & lamb...