| Show I I I o- o U. U 3 S. S MUST 1ST FEED THE TUE WORLD tORD EVERYONE IS UR URGED ED TO HELP PRODUCE SOMETHING For the ensuing two ye years rs America must feed the world This is is the message that is is being sent from official so sources rc s of of the United States M e MEven Even the boy scouts boy scouts of f America are are urged to lend a helping hand I It t is not easy to tell just how much foodstuffs there is in the United States but the estimate from the most authentic tic places of information is that there is only enough to fast last until fall when wh-en the p people ople of this country as well weIl as the alli allies s will be absolutely dependent upon this years year's crops President Wilson has said that a person person person per per- son can be just as patriotic in the rais rails raising ing of navy beans as ashy asby by enlisting in the army and at this time tim the only salvation salvation Salvation salva Salva- tion for the fighting allies of this cou country try lies in the p planting of a millions of additional of-additional acres Interviewed in Chicago a fe few days day ago igo George E. E Ferrill of the United States department o. o of agriculture made the following Conditions are are simply appalling when on one thinks of what next winter seems certain to bring forth said Mr Ferrill From all the statistics we can gather America has food enough to last till next fall The There re is not enough to last after afler that Our fate then rests on what we can harvest What we harvest depends on what we plant now Chicago is further ahead than the great eastern cities in the m matter of 0 conservation of food supplies but Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago has not done its best yet The west will have to help support the east I I ets imports worth of foodstuffs every year If every foot of Jand land in that state were were- cultivated still the state would fan fall short 6 per cent in e production of its own food supplies The country must awaken to agriculture All the experienced experienced ex ex- farm labor available must must must-be be turned to the soil Farmers are feeling Reeling the pinch and many man of them are not awake wake to the situation They of course will be the thelast thelast last ast to suffer in t the e case of food scar- scar city ity I know a farm where potatoes are scarce and none are being planted because the supply is not big enough for or both seed and home consumption It noes not matter what it costs to produce Money is only exchange and if f it should cost 2 to produce 1 worth of f foodstuff it must be done People can an eat food but not money Cost should hould not be counted now The world must muo be kept from starving ni |
