Show Better Grass GrassIs I Is Important COALVILLE COALVILLE- Good grass helps good living as every cattleman or conservationist knows And we weare weare are aro going to need lots of ot It it if it Americans are to continue continua as one of ot the best fed best fed nations of ot the world People of ot the United States consume each year year pounds pound o of meat per p person More than half of ot this b is' is Labeef beef By Dy contrast meat consumption on in the Far East is only six pounds per person per son con annually t One of ot our OUI big jobs ah ahead ad Is id Isto hito I to keep our good od grass production production I I tion and our our meat production abreast of ou out our growing population population tion There is a new American every 11 seconds Russian ag agriculture culture Is roughly 50 60 years behind American agri culture Each RUf Russian lan farm worker work work- er produces enough food for tor himself him him- self and three to four tour other peo pie Each American farmer pro duc duces enough to feed teed himself and 26 others Russians spend 56 per percent cent of ot their family income on food toad American families spend 20 per ver cent If U our farms were no more ef of efficient than Soviet collectives 20 to 25 million workers would have I to quit their Jobs and return to ta the farms farm to produce food tood for tor our population Hunger is still man kinds great enemy and Americans better not forget torget it In Brazil 23 m million Uon people live on the brink of ot star star- I Malnutrition affects nearly near nearly ly Iy two-thirds two of ot the worlds three near near-I billion human beings Instead of ot reducing our aur agricultural agri cultural research and education because American farmers can produce surplus food and fiber tiber at the moment we had better search for tor ways to insure more equitable returns for tor all members of r our our r nations nation's agriculture |