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Show (FRANCE WILL FEED HERSELF AFTER WAR Every Inch of Land Will Be Agriculturally Used in Future. ,. " By Edward M. Thierry N. C. A. Staff Correspondent. PARIfl. France. Nov. II. Victor Boret the "Mr. Hoover of France" declnree France will have to become self aupport-tng. aupport-tng. Hhe must, of course, depend on America for much of her food this winter. win-ter. America undoubtedly will be the big factor. In supplying France with the necessary agricultural machinery te make Intensive farming possible. "The only way France will be able to free Iteeif from tha wartime food res trie-tlona,' trie-tlona,' eld Food Controller Boret, "will be to greedy Increye agricultural pro-' pro-' duct tort The natloif must become self eupportlng." MODERN MACHINERY. I To understand what Boret meana It must be remembeied that heretofore M per cent of French far ma have been worked entirely by hand, or by the use of antiquated thrah!ng machines and tha like. Mechanical force, aa the American Amer-ican farmer undereaiida It, la almost totally to-tally unknown here. I "Unfortunately." Boret continued. "there will be a serious ahortage of farm i labor. It la among thla class of people that the heaviest war aacrlflcea have I been made. t "Mechanical force will have to replace i farm hand labor. French engineers and 1 conetrurtore already have begun to study theae probleme. Typee of machinery have been approved and demonetratlona of some forms of agricultural machinery have been held. LAND NOW BAftftlN. 'Pieaaa flndai frinM with much fit Its moat fertije agricultural lands laid waate. In order that the coat of living can be lowered and eWore the war comfort com-fort made possible not an inch of this productive soli can be allowed to remain unproductive " The government haa already announced Ita Intention to aid in developing farm "motorculture " It will contribute raw materiel, facilitate the purchase of farm machinery and distribute codl and gaao-line. gaao-line. i - . |