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The arrival of a Japanese agent on our west coast for the purchase of ten thousand horses for use by the Japanese army is but another straw to indicate how much the outside world leans upon the United States for supplies. Large orders or-ders for canned meats were given by Russia when the war was first precipitated; now comes the order-for horses, and should the war increase in severity, as it almost certainly will, all kinds of lood products will be needed by both governments. govern-ments. Then peaceful Europe Is a much greater patron. It wants American textiles, American food; American tobacco, while away off in South Africa the mines depend, upon American timbers and American machinery and American canned fruit and fish. The farmers of this country should plant just as great an area as possible this year. |
