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Show WHY WE MUST SAVE FOOD. - The 1017 wheat crop In France wbs less than half normal, using the crop of 1013 aa a basis ot comparison. Thara waa a shoring of 170,000,000 bushels, or 53.3 per cent The potat crop was only within one-third ot nor-mal. nor-mal. The sugar beet crop showed a deficit of 67.0 per cent. Her meat herds In the early fall showed a shortage short-age of 1,800,000 animals. Those are a ' few of the reasons America must feed her associates In tho war. They are no longer able to feed themselves, nnd unless we come to the rescue are fnce to face with starvation. And starvation means defeat de-feat In tho war. |