A history of food preservation and plant breeding.

1928. This book contains eleven essays relating to the fight against hunger and the people responsible behind this movement. Contents:

- Wheat: wheat dreamer, Carleton;
- wheat finders, Mackay and others more eminent;
- Meat: scientific Bolshevik, Dorset;
- man for fundamentals, Mohler;
- automatic man, Francis;
- Maize: maize finders, ancient and anonymous;
- maize breeder, Shull;
- new soil from old, Hoffer;
- Hidden Hunger: finder of the hidden hunger, Babcock;
- sun trapper, Steenbock;
- soft spoken desperado, Goldberger.

Books for children about the science and medicine:
- Stories of Great Physicians by Raymond F. Jones
- Great Men of Science by Arnold Dolin
- The Little Killers: Fleas, Lice, Mosquitoes by Wyatt Blassingame
- Rats, Lice, and History by Hans Zinsser