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The South Will Feed Itself Advancing Farm Development Plan
A Memphis driven campaign launches a Bureau of Farm Development uniting farmers bankers and merchants across seventy Tennessee Mississippi and Arkansas counties to boost home food production. It finds southern counties import $90 million in food and feed and aims to keep dollars at home by expanding diversified farming and canning with 2 111 meetings 220 871 attendees and 80 201 miles traveled by speakers.
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South
Bureau of Farm Development
Business Men’s Club of
Memphis
Tennessee
Mississippi
Arkansas
Bureau
Iowa
Wisconsin
Indiana
State Board of Education of
North Carolina
Illinois
International Harvester Co
Perry G. Holden
International Harvester Company
Chicago
Holden
Harvester Company
J. C. Clair
Illinois Central Railway
Rock Island
Louisville & Nashville
Southern
Iron Mountain
Agricul
Canning
Paul
George R. James
Chas. J. Haas
H. M. Cottrell
W. R. Baughman