Excerpt from Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 17: April 1953 Mr. Short, the new director, brings to fas many years of experience in sizing up the needs of Amer ican agriculture. He has long been a prominent rice, cotton, and livestock farmer in Arkansas, and since 1947 has been vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. As a member of Secretary Ben son's new staff, he first served as Director of usda Agricultural Credit Services. 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.