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Show i'KK MAN, SOT 'I UK A (UK We liear mui:li about increased production and conserving idle lands: much of utilizing back yards and vacant va-cant IciIh, -ven roadsides and railroad rlKht of way. Added to this will be the annual prize contests for the greatest yields per acre. '1 hev are all Kood excellent. Hut let us not lose sight of the fact that is if this country is to meet and solve the food problem the burning demand will be not for the maximum production per acre, but for the maximum I ' 10 1 1 MAN. It is imperative that every worker in the soil this year use every means possible to make his work count to the .utmost in his VOLUMK OF PRODUCTION, PRO-DUCTION, lie should cultivate every ev-ery acre possible and In order to increase in-crease his capacity he should employ every available implement for reducing re-ducing men labor while increasing the work done. This is no time to be dabbling in a garden with a weeding hoe while a tractor and gang plow stand idle. The garden and back yard are available avail-able for the aged and the very young and the town business man who has no Held to cultivate, but the husky young giant is vitally needed in driving driv-ing the big implements of production and making the broad acres bloom and fruitify. A full yield per acre is essential, but the salvation of this country will depend largely upon BETTER YIELDS and MORE ACRES PER MAN. Last year millions of acres went uncultivated. This year every acre should be made to produce to the limit of its possibilities. An idle field In 1917 will be a reproach to its owner, and it is to be hoped there will be not one in this whole community. com-munity. If the owner is without the means of securing improved machinery in order to increase his acreage and his yield, then the moneyed men and t lie bankers should promptly come to his aid. The linacier is indebted to rhi.-: country for his wealth, and in he hour of national danger that wealth should be placed unreservedly at tbe legitimate disposal of the farmers who must toil early and late that the people may not suffer for bread. 'I lie big Implement makers should also come to the front with a rush, p' credit is needed then credit should be extended in order that more acres may be tilled. Where' more farm hands are need-:d need-:d i hey should be drafred from the ititF and the towns. If they are unwilling to go and do their share, governmental authorities should com. iel action. Every able bodied man hould either fight or work. There s no room for slackers and the public s in no mood to condone them. The United States does not lack or the MEANS to produce crops ne-essary ne-essary to feed the people in this .our of peril, but those means .MUST ;IC F.1PL0ED or we fill |