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Show ? A b J LTTLR FARMS Hp ' An advance note has been sound- B- '.d regarding a great national need B'' .by Senator Harding of Ohio In his B?v advocacy of little farms for the peo- m1-' , Vie. He wants to see that every soldier gets a small farm when he B" xeturns from thhe war. B According to the Ohio senator, M ; there are 30,000,000 acres of un- H n jused land In New England that H ' knight be growing crops. In the H mlddlo states 35,000,000 acres are M I' lying Idle. The Pacific coast states H . ;re estimated to hdld. 180,000,000 M meres of unused but usable soil. For Hi IJk wv a tneentlre country 600.000,000 HjF " ldmaitn await occupancy. l ' n to lnatter ef eemmoa ImewMfr H,, mM. Pi RUU fwrsos 9t France have Hi .- Ibeen ladgely contributory to tho H;: .ssving of the life ot that nation In K , -the -present struggle, as they were H :also the means of meeting the tear-H tear-H ful Indemnity placed upon France H;il atter the Franco-Prussian war. A ; large measure of England's food de-Hi. de-Hi. -pendency Is chargeable to her H;4 neglect ot small-farm development. H, 'The present war Is making a change H there, however, and England will be H'r better off In this respect after the H' war. Washington Post |