Word: soybeans
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...subscriber to your esteemed magazine TIME, I wish to take exception to the reference to Mr. Henry Ford as the No. 1 U. S. soybean man, as appears in the issue of Oct. 12. I feel that your article and general information on the soybean industry is very accurate and extremely well written and I think that if you make the proper investigation you will find that Mr. A. E. Staley, chairman of the board of the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co. of Decatur, Ill. should be considered by all odds the No. 1 soybean...
...think the fact that Illinois accounted for 21,834,000 bu. of the total U. S. production of 39,637,000 bu. in 1935 can be largely attributed to Mr. Staley's pioneer work in educating the farmers of his own State in the production of soybeans and it is also interesting to note that Mr. Staley built the first soybean plant in the U. S. in 1922, which provided a commercial market for the farmers of Illinois. Mr. Staley realized the possibilities in the soybean industry as far back as 1916 and even sent men to China...
Detroit's Ford may be the most publicized promoter of soybeans, but Reader Mead is right in rating Decatur's Staley as a potent longtime soybean processor. As a North Carolina farm boy, Professor Staley was first shown soybean plants by a returned missionary, never lost interest in the crop thereafter. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., makers of corn products, crushed 5,764 bu. of beans when it opened its bean processing plant in October 1922, crushed 317,202 bu. in March...
Ford & Future. Republican Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick has been experimenting with soybeans on the Chicago Tribune's farm at Yorkville, Ill., astounded his readers last spring by expressing approval of Democratic Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace when the Department sponsored a laboratory soybean farm at the University of Illinois. The No. 1 U. S. soybean man is Henry Ford. His reason: "If we want the farmer to be our customer, we must find a way to be his customer...
...Illinois soybean farmers trade so much of their crop in kind to paint makers that last year one out of every ten barns in the state was coated with soybean paint...