Show BERMUDA IN INFO FOOD P D CRUSADE Government of Island Colony Urges Urge Rely Further on N Not t to Formers Farmers Imported Supplies J Consul Carl R. R Loop United States at nt Hamilton m n says The department R a of f SST agriculture leaflet for of al general Bermuda distribution has Issued urging on tho the colony ur throng throughout bout out necessity of growing larger farmers farmers the quantities quantities of food for home 1 Uon tion It says In part The Tho government Is most anxious and others rea realize ze tho the that importance under present conditions of or increasing local food supplies supplies The foodstuffs of Imported high prices which are likely to be still further Increased Increased increased In In- greatly great grent- add creased In the future very and at nt the ly to the cost of ot living duty for tor present time it is a patriotic a-patriotic all to do their utmost to insure theall the practice of at economy in every department depart depart- ment meat of life Ufe Heretofore the farmers of the colony colony colony col col- ony have depended too much on Imported Imported imported im Im- Im- Im ported and too little on home grown foods The present aim of every farmer farm farm- er should be to produce as ns much food for his family and live stock as he can grow with economy and to have a sur surplus sur- sur plus to sell By so soly doing Joing he can cnn greatly great great- ly reduce his own cost of at living JIving and at the same time lessen the colony's de de- dependence dependence dependence on Imported foods The high Cost ost of imported foodstuffs should increase in In- Frease crease rease the demand for local grown nods foods and a market would seem to tobe be e assured especially for potatoes both Irish and sweet and pigs |