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Show DOUBLE NATION'S MEAT SUPPLY Poultry must bo produced next year in places where it has not been produced before, and ererj where that poultry has been produced that production pro-duction must be IncreatcU. It is necessary nec-essary that people In the country nud lu tho towns answer alike to this call. Farms nud buckynids must both do their bit, for the doubling of our poultry production next jear Is an lndisponsablo item lu tho nation's food production program a program which must bo carried out if we are to win tho war. Tho meat supplies available for European use aro short. Meat must be supplied If the war Is won by the forces who fight for freedom. Tho war will bo won If wo fall In food production but not won by us. We must understand what will happen If we do not provldo tho enormous quantities of foodsuffs nhat the Allies Al-lies can not produco for themselves. Are wo going to feed our army ou chickens and eggs? Of course not. Hut by greatly Increasing our production pro-duction of chicken and eggs, nnd by eating thoso chickens nnd eggs our-solves our-solves wo will, naturally, eat that much lets beof and pork, lu turn, that beef and pork can be sent to Europe. The Uultod States Dopartmoat ot Agriculture calls upon tho country to doublo poultry rodNtk yar. That tarn U tb lurtte will keep au average of one hundred hens instead of an average of forty hens, as at present, and if every family In town will keep enough hens In the back yard to produce all the eggs used by that family, or two hens to each person. o |