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Show How Farmers Fought the War This is a little tribute to the farmer's wife and daughter for what they did in the fields to help w in the war. Secretary of Agriculture Houston, in his annual repot t. summarizes sum-marizes the output and effort of American farms in these ligures: 1918 wheat yield, 'M 8,');o.ooi. bushels 1918 corn yield. 2,7 49. 1 Q8,om bushel-. Acreage in 1917 planted to wheat, corn, potatoes. tohico and cotton, 283,000,000; acreage in I98 planted to same cmpv 289,000,000. Gain, 5, 600,000 acres. "The part the millions of men, women and boys and girls on the farms and In the organized agricultural agencies a-sisting them. Including the federal department of agriculture, the state colleges and departments of agriculture and farmer's organizations played during the war in sustaining this nation and those w ith which we are associated," remarks Mr. HoiisVn. ' is striking but altogether too little known and appreciated. "On them rested the responsibility for maintaining and increasing in-creasing food production and for assisting in securing fuller conservation conser-vation of food and foodstuffs." j Yes, and the farmer's wife went out into the fields after doing up her housework and plowed, harrowed and planted and cultivated beside her husband so the boy could go to war and so there d K more busy acres and more food for everybody in America and Europe. ! And her daughter pitched hay and rode on the rake-and the. binder and the cultivator and the wagon in the hot sun for the same reasons. And' the country and the world is fed and grateful. : Some day somebody is going to writ the story of how the farjuers' wives stood in the muddy furrows in the fields to help the wolj to freedom, and it's going to be the story 0( many Molly 1 Pitchers in one and it'll be t best, seller, too. . " j |