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Show CROPS ARE NEEDED, LLOYD GEORGE SAYS LONDON, Dec. 21. Premier Lloyd George, today iu addressing a deputation deputa-tion of fi.trriculturi.sts in regard to the food supply, referred especially to the problem of shipping the magnificent fighting material ot the United states to Europe. Agriculturists at home could facilitate the task by saving tonnage, the premier declared. "Our very security depends on the increased cultivation of the land," he continued. "We want, if possible, to get 3,000,000 acres into cultivation. We are beginning increasingly to realize the extent, to wnicn agriculture enters into the whole task of carrying on the war. "You are not working within sound of the cannon, may not be facing danger, dan-ger, nevertheless you are doing a work that assists the country in this grave hour of its fate. By increasing cultivation cultiva-tion you can enormously increase the shipping at. the disposal' of the government, govern-ment, to bring the men and munitions needed to defeat the enemy. " Among the measures proposed, the premier said, was to make .greater use of prisoners of war, and he' hoped thus to provide 30,000 additional unskilled laborers. |