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Show I Seeding gangs have begun tbe i spring drive on the Kaiser and his I Huns with the battle fleets of huge tractors. In the fields, both in the United States and Canada, they are preparing for the greatest crop year in the history of the continent. Tractors and their crews are doing the work of many times as many men and teams, and the promise of the farmers that they will provide the food with which to win the war is to be put to the test this year. City men are looking to the land : for their chance. Women, too, since the advent of huge iron horses, will ; do as much in the field as men. j Women of the United States are studying agriculture and field clothes; the women of Canada have risen with a plan for a national registration reg-istration of woman-power. Uoys in tuij country, and also in Canada, too youB to (?o to France as soldiers in the battle of men and guns, are rushing rush-ing to oniist in agricultural work. Tbcir fathers and grandfathers, retired re-tired merchants and farmers, individuals indi-viduals and corporations, are going afield with the same inspiration. Three retired farmers have volunteered volun-teered to farm 1,500 acres of un-plotted un-plotted cjty sub-divisions in Regina, Saskatchewan. A thousand boys in Manitoba had enlisted and been located on farms before the end of February; thousands of Chicago bovs have gone to work in the country. coun-try. More than 25,000 boys from the public schools of the Dominion will constitute a corps of "soldiers of the oil," helping to "carry-on" at home for the men overseas. C. S. Noble of Nobleford, Alberta, promise? a milium mil-ium bushel crop from hid farm this year; J. E. Hauskins of Eston, Saskatchewan, holder of the world-: world-: title for breaking new ground, has ' set himself to seed in ten days or less most of the 50,000 ncres com- ? rising the world's greatest wheat arm which Chicago capitalists, headed by Frederick S. Oliver, will operate in the rich Snipe Lake district dis-trict of Saskatchewan. In line with this general offensive is the effort of, the provincial and Dominion govern-! govern-! ments which are co-operating on the most gigantic scale in history in a plan by which more than 1,500 square miles will be seeded and worked this spring with tractors. "Back to the land that food may help win- the war" is the cry up and down the land, and back to the land both the United States and Canada are ending thousands of newly drafted men, counting them patriots i still who farm instead of licht. |