is america spreading thirty two hundred miles from one vast ocean to another and twenty one hundred miles from the canadian border to the gulf of mexico in this great expanse live one hundred  fifty million people for whom this land must provide food and all the other necessities of life yes one hundred and fifty million people must be supplied with food every day three hundred sixty five days a theory each of us requires about three acres of fertile soil to sustain life but taken literally chicago alone would cover ten million acres oh it is not practical for each to others choose to manufacture some choose to raise the fruits and vegetables others prophecies for each contributes to the comfort and wellbeing of the other and while it succeeds on individual merits and may be unaware of doing anything for anyone but himself our economic system is based on the contribution of the individual to the welfare of  our progress was the result of enterprising and many industries were built and those which were founded on sound business principles and good management and your prospered over the years were getting ahead of our story let's go now to the little church there's an important meeting here today mrs harwood is on the program and she has a surprising story to tell that's mrs thompson the chairman of the group she's appointed her committees and reported on the current activities turn the meeting over to mrs yes mr briggs showed mrs harwood understand the operation of a milk plant including the testing of the milk on the er seating platform and all phases of our milk is carefully processed and safeguarded every step of the way through that their aid to the story a certain percent of milk flows into the dairy where it is processed and delivered within a few hours this involves a large number of trained personalities many types of service you remember mrs h bottle of milk varying the metal ball seal is perfectly pure are an awesome you are shown control indicators that ensure absolute precision in time and temperature for the protection of the milk you drink in your home and you observe how bottles are they all been kept without the sterilized bottle being touched by hand fairly streamlined operation which is a far cry from the old days when the housewife ran out with a pan when the milk came along and raw milk was labeled from a common container you saw have a cap or stamps out special aluminum foil caps which are perfect protection on the bottle of milk you receive in your all and i hope you found some of the material you need for your paper in the things you saw today indeed i have i'm a surprise with the amount of wear and tear well of service we render is the reason for our big it's not just something added it's our work our routine is one of constant careful service but the things you saw are only a part of all picture now another one of the whole milk and cream flows from the farm to the ice cream plants were  tested flavored frozen packaged and then delivered to your grocery or drug store all i see and some of the milk is separated on the farm and cream sent to our butter plant w chart actually our service begins right on the far our field man helps the farmer with his problems of developing fine herds and producing fewer wholesome milk sanitation on the farm is very important in our field man to help and advise the farmer in this to yes i particularly notice that everyone here in the plant is very clean and has to be that's our responsibility to you and to our customers the equipment you saw today is yes but not because for about twenty six percent of company business only twenty six percent we have a variety of products each of which is processed differently we're a food company and many different company products are sold through grocery and here a tempest from a control laboratory takes a sample of the freshly turned butter to test for compliance not only with government standards but with bad press for his company's own high standards for metal gold bu packaging machine does all the work it wraps the butter in special human employer to preserve its freshness and flavor and now it's automatically put into cars at the rate of one hundred ten quarter pounds  five percent in the company business in another part of this large plant the hardwoods were shown the research laboratory research is out there a important phase of any food product company which is constantly striving to serve the public better and doing their part in providing food for one hundred and fifty million people these food technicians who are graduate chemists are using their knowledge and experience to improve the beatrice products of today and find new uses for them in the home it is here that new products are developed which will help the housewife in her daily problem of feeding her family their work is very important as the progress of any institution depends upon its ability to make life more pleasant and profitable for the american people about leaving the research laboratory the hardwoods were shown the bakery experimental laboratory and this department products are developed which enabled bakers to improve the quality of their baked goods for as every housewife knows very products are an important factor in the preparation of many brands cakes cookies and pastries and here we find a home economist was busy developing new dishes to assist the housewife in the daily preparation of over one thousand meals a year the final tested recipes which result i then made available to the never ending list of medical customers housewives found this the most valuable  here constant effort is made to discover more economical ways to process the products of and the resulting information is passed on to each plant so that they too may have the benefit of the most efficient and economical harwood has received here some idea of the premed in this amount of time and labor necessary to help the entire organization in the most efficient methods of serving the american people the lovely scenery along the way and other top quality ingredients for the portholes they can look into the large stainless steel chamber into which liquid hot chocolate is sprayed under great pressure like heat of this chamber housewife is appreciative of the extra quality and good flavor of hot chocolate made instantly with  this billing machine does everything but thing it fills envelopes exactly deals them perfectly and pulls them neatly there packed ready for easy selection from the grocers count the farmer today is a real business and then this little mr owns in the dairy field man are discussing some current problem