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Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1943 Many people suppo'se that the United States. Produced large food surpluses ln the 1930's. Nothing could be less true in terms of human needs. In the pre war years at least one -third of our people were undernourished, either because they chose food wrongly or because they did not have enough money to buy what they needed. Nutri tion scientists reported that to provide a ygood diet for all the people in the United States would require considerably more milk, leafy green and yellow vegetables, and tomatoes and citrus fruits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.