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Show plus grain and storing it in warehouses ware-houses for a period of crop failure. All this "dope" about crop failures, fail-ures, of course, is scientific guesswork, guess-work, largely. Maybe there is nothing noth-ing ahead except bumper crops. All ' of us devoutly hope so. B'jt the possibility of a big crop failure is worthy serious thought. Our generation gen-eration has not gone through a real crop failure, so it does not knovp what real trouble is. Nature tends to balance things in the long run. When she gives us too much food over a long stretch of time, she is apt to start the ball rolling the other way. ' SUppty. Years of plenty aim lean years coftie ia rotational groups. For example, seven fat years and tbe seven lean years In Egypt. If Joseph were alive again, he would have been buying the farmers' sur- WW.I1HIHW1I HiiimittiHUttlir CROPS AND FAMINES. Backward weather has played havoc with the crops. The June 1 report of the government showed that the nation's crops were in the poorest condition they had been on that date for the last dozen years. Crop failures come periodically. Early in 1022 Sir William Henry Beverid.e, head of the London School of Economies, predicted that the world was approaching a year "destined to repeat something like the experience of 1315, the year of the worst and most general harvest failure known in European history." his-tory." Economists headed by Bev-eridge Bev-eridge had checked back and fonnd that there is a terrible crop failure about every 123 years. The Inst big one was in 1S00. So Beveridge suggested that the nest might fall in 1923. He was wrong. But did he miss it entirely, or just by a few yenrs? Is there danger of a world famine this year or in the next few years ahead? Crop failures come in years of un 1 favorable weather, which repeatj .periodically the "solar or meteor-! iologica! cycle" is what the sclent-1 lists call it. Freakish weather has) been tbe rule for a couple of years j and has been dangerous to the foodj |