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Show OO UNCLE SAM AS A FAItMER HAS THE SINEWS FOR WAR The total value of this year's food crops In tho United States will be over $3,300.-000 $3,300.-000 Of this total, wheat makes up ?1,-135.100.CO0, ?1,-135.100.CO0, com 51.750.000,000, oats $341,000,-000 $341,000,-000 and hay $975,000,000. Uncle Sam's harvest har-vest for this year would Finance tho construction of thirteen Panama Canals, complete and roady for operation, at an estimated coat ot MLi 000,000 apiece. Pay for the cost of the whole Europ war for more than three months. ' Build the United States a fleet of 7i L supcrdrcadnoughts at il,(.X,0M per shh. U Tho actual quantities of Kraln and li ( age Involved would feed ecry 3oldlr- jrj der arms In Europe and supply grain ui M forage for tlielr horses, for rAther not than ten years, nnd would similarly M ' the entire United States army for narly two thousand jcars (or until they d!l t of old age) k This year's wheat crop In ths UclM States will probably form ono-fouili ol ( the world' total, the sear's corn c:o? m three-fourths of the world's total, tin j oats crop nearly one-third of the wflrWi total. |