Show N Tenders Tribute to Farmers Washington Tribute Tribute to to the part played b by the nations nation's soil oll tillers In winning the war war warIs is paid h by Secretary r Houston in his annual report for fOl lOIS 1018 transmitted to congress Bumper crops were grown both this year rear and la last t in spite of a adverse erse weather the thc secretary sa says s 's and the millions millIons' of men an and wom women n and boys hors and and girls on the farm with the organized ag agencies assisting l them performed satisfactorily IJ ily the supremely I Important t task of sustaining their own country and those associated with it In the war var Emphasizing the difficulties and the tho absence of dramatic In the war Job joh of the farmer funner Mr 11 Houston speaks eaks I with satisfaction of the change during the past year toward to giving agriculture n a larger place In- In Inthe the the newspapers nn and ma magazines and the worlds world's thought an and and bringing the great urban populations into closer touch with rural life |