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Show CAN FEED THE WORLD. ' If the winter wheat crop forecast is realized, the United States will be able to feed the world at harvest time. The acreage totals nearly fifty ! million and the government experts are predicting a yield of 755.000,000 bushels, or 210,000,000 bushels greater than last season. With a guaranteed price on wheat, the farmers are seeding their land to that grain, preferring to accept the I high figures than to trust to the uncertainly un-certainly of the markets for other farm products. Next year our farmers. will be called on to continue to help the people of Europe escape starvation. The farms of France, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Hungary are In need of fertilizers, as they have been under constant drain during the war. Tho worn soils of those old world countries must be restored in order to produce as they did in 1914. While the work of restoration resto-ration is proceeding, tho farmers of the United States must supply the foodstuff food-stuff which Is, to keep hunger from the millions who have suffered so much privation in. the past four years. Russia might help, but Russia is going through an internal disturbance which is fully as destructive as was the war itself and, until stability of government is assured, the peasantry will be in no position to plant and reap as In the past. Much attention has been given to the number of soldiers sent across the ocean, the quantity of ammunition and other equipment of war, but the one great thing that saved France and Great Britain, before this country even entered the conflict, was the food that left America's shores for the allies. Our farmers can say that they did a mighty work in helping to make the world safe for democracy. |