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Show Top Production t Lowers Food Cost I Food Bill Could Be f One-Third Greater t. American families would have to pay at least a third more for their i food than at present, if farmers didn't have any fertilizer for their crops, reports Dr. Herrell DeGraff, Cornell University food scientist. E Dr. DeGraff said that without S chemical fertilizers and what they S add directly to our supplies of food, "we could not possibly have ! both our prssent high-quality diet j and all the other advantages of j the average level of living we en- joy today." f "If we had to devote mor effort . j PRODUCTION FROM t I PLANT POOD THIS 5 Or-i . V WOULO HAVE C06T Is j to producing food, not only would -food be less plentiful and more ! expensive, but also we would not be able to produce other goods j and services as we do at present." Without fertilizer, American farmers would maintain fewer livestock and our agriculture would be less balanced, Dr. DeGraff Food scientists report that the nation's high-quality diet would be impossible without top yields per acre from American farms. And they would cost one-third more, too. pointed out. In place of meat, people peo-ple would have to consume more direct crops such as beans, corn and wheat. As a result, our diet would be of lower nutritive quality. |