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ce le a ee eT CAD IT ete ete rt al a eA PRE A EO seston nn kk eer he So ete et ate EES EI a ERNE ES Gi aA Na es of 16, WALLACE was making! experiments with crossing different types of corn and he succeeded in cultivating a new kind of corn which would yield more and would require a shorter time of vegetation than ever known before, This kind of corn which was called "COOPER CROSS", is at the present time the most popular one in the United States. WALLACE was also the founder of the still existing business firm which trades in high grade corn. The turnover of this firm along with its branches in Canada reaches $10,000,000 annually. It certainly brings no small income to its owners. At his huge farm in the State of Iowa, which spreads over 1100 acres, HENRY WALLACE is engaging himself in research work not only as to cultivating of plants but also cattle raising. Not long ago he acquired a farm of 12 acres in South Salem near New York. WALLACE-is~the author of-many studies” on agriculture and the American policy. (AGRICULTURE PRICES" - "AMERICA MUST CHOOSE" - "TECHNOLOGY OF CORPORATION OF GENERAL WELFARE" - "WHAT IS THE PRICE OF FREEDOM" - "CENTURY OF THE COMMON MAN") At the beginning of the year 1932 by means of HENRY MORGEN THAD, WALLACE got acquainted with FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, the then Governor of the State of New York amd took part in his election campaipn. When ROOSEVELT became President, WALLACE was made Secretary of Agriculture. He was one of the closest cooperators of the late President and the follower of his "New Deal", WALLACE masters the French, Spanish and Chinese languages. When in 1944 he visited the Soviet Union he would make speeches in Russian which language he studied prior to his departure. WALLACE had been Secretary of Agriculture for seven years amd finally in 1940 he was elected Vice President of the USA. As soon as he resumed this office the functions of a Vice President got a new pmel. According to the traditions wmtil now this position was not” connected with any real competence. WALLACE became some sort of an extraordinary envoy who traveled at a special order of ROOSEVELT. He visited the Latin American countries, China and India. In 1944 at ROOSEVELT's order he visited the Eastern territories of the Soviet Union. During the four weeks which he spent in the Soviet Union he visited 2 cities. and numerous villages in the Far East, Siberia, the Kazakhstan and the Uzbek SSR. He visited factories, coal mines, colfarms, state farms, agriculture research stations, gold mines,