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The United states Department of Agriculture, in its oicial report, jannounces the condition of the fall wheat crop (which is two-thirds of their total wheat crop) on 'April 1st-, 1917, to be the poorest ever recorded and predicts a yield of 244,000,000 bushels below the crop of 1915. The 1916 crop was poor. Even with favorable weather, the wheat crop ;of the United States is likely to be the smallestf in thirty-ve years, not more than 64% of~the normal crop. I " ' - " .-Nv "Yer! Evening 1 V Hunger Tightening T Therefore, `'every'_ tonof fovod stuffs growxi in Canada is` worth tothei Motherland--two tons grown in India or four tons grown in Australia, _ - ` ~~ _ V The iand under cultivation in Ontario in 19.16_ was V 365,000 acres less than in 1915. i 0 Consider.how much LESS Ontario produced i_n 1916.than~ she raised in 1915: 1'1 10-year KJICI \.1ll'I all VV OTK Miss Alexandra Srnith, one of the thousands of British _ en workers on the land_.- She recently won an All-Comers Cham- . pion prize for plowing. Owing to destruction by submarines, ocan -ships are scarce. ' One vessel can make twice as many trips from_Canada to Britain as from "India, and fou_r'times as. many as -from Australia. It is.mu"ch easier to protctfshipping between Canada and .E'r_1gla`nd~/' than on the longer voyages from lnc}ja or Australia. ` -. `-- vv-J -vwu-u a quill Qrlvli-I. I.ll\r llbllt I-l\JI\JII\JlI I.ll\/ llI\I\)\ulIIr VVCLI problem comes back to the farm, gs" to a foundation upon which. our whole national and international structure` must_-.1be.\built * ' `arid -maiii=t;1ir_1ed.e A -' -~ Chairman: His*Honour. Sir John "S. Hendrie, K.C.M.G., C.V.0.. v Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario; Vice~Chai1-men: Honourable Sir Wil- liam H. Hearst, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of Ontario; N. W. Rowen,` ` ` Esq., K.C., Leader of the Opposition; Secretary: Albert H. Abbott. End" Ph.D. ' \ _ - _ if `this Country does not raise a big crop this year, not only will t'he.people`",of Canada suffer butthe Motherland and her Allies will suffer and their military power will be weakened if "not paralyzed. Therefore, the right solution of the present war J problem comes foundation upon whole national structure \must_i.be\built "arid .-main"-t_air`;ed.? . _ I / Potatoes and Carrots . . 1916 139,523 7,408,429 \ 1 . .` 1915 173,934` 13,257,023 34:4 ? 5:353:59` _Mangel-Wur2els 1916 42,793 9}7:'>6',0`15 , , and Turnips . .. .' 1915 50,799 25,356,323 3.005 15,509,308 \ Other crops show as critical decline. 5 V _ - Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for 1617 are decidedly discouraging. 1 As there is an average of not more than one man on` each hundred acres or farm land in Ontario, the prospects indicate even a still smaller acreage under cultivation in 1917 un_le_s_s4 extra labor is supplied. Fall Vgheat . .- Barley and Oats Peas and Beans liy th? Cqllf to Canada is So `Urgent Food? Prqd1:|ct.ion; is the Greatest Problem A 1 %the* World Faces To-day ` -Photo from Lond nT (Eng`.)\Bysta~ 1'5-Ayg-7_a.r Qirl a t _ qrk` Yiaar Acres I 04 ll VD./. Qll 5916 4915 Forty million men, less the casualties, are now on active service. Twenty million men and women are supporting them by service in other war activities. a In the last analysis, the land is bearing this burden. \ ' One million tons of food-carrying! ships have been torpedoed since February I st, I917. - Germany's hope for victory is in the starvation of. Britain through the submarine. Canada s sonswill have died -in vain hunger. compels the Motherland's surrender. The land is waiting`---the plough.` is ready-will. we make the plough mightier than the sword? V Will we help the acres to save the ag? l 1916 1915 1916 191:") 1916 1915 704,867 811,185 529,886 T 552,318 309L773 95.542 -Photo Londqri (Eng'.)\Bystander. Bushels 14 ,942,050 24,737,011 12,388,969 19,893,129 1916 DECREASE Acres 105,315 24,432 Bushels 9,794,961 7,504,160 12,717.07`: 21,760,496 1,243,979 2,043,049 Under date of April 10th, Ogden Armourpexecutive head of` Armour 8: Company, one of the wbr1d s lar"ge,st in` food products, stated that unless the United` Sta,tes'wishes to walk deliberately into a. catastrophe, the best brains of the country. under Go.vern'men.t.supervision) must immediately `devise means of increasing and .conserving food` supplies. Armour urged the cul-tivat-ionof. every available acre. -. The food shortage, he said,- is: world-wide. _European. production is cut in half, the Argentine Republic has `suffered droughts. Canada andihe United. States must wake up!` . . . v / A 31,401 51,441 9,043,424" 799,070 wgygnuqby tho lnhgnnon Iowa Sanka. New text. on g I0 enable (He KETIII (U U LIIC WUIIS tvvv auvsv-u .__ V The first is Time. Whatever we are to do must be done at once. Nature waits for no man. The second is L850!`- vMany farmers cannot plant the acres they would because the? cannot get the necessary help. Mainy are afraid to increase their acreage because they fear they would not be able to culti- vate and harvest ansunusual crop after they have raised it. If- they are to do the work that is essential for them to do, the last man in eachcity, town and village must be mobilized at once. . The farrriers knowthat they zire the last rese_rve,m`:$g that the (soil on which crops are grqwn IS the Strategic 1% base on which wars are decided. To their care 15 entrusted t e . of supplies. _ So, for the honor of- Canada s soldiers in France--and for the glory of" our New-born Nationhood--let it be said of Ontario s citizens that, in` the hour.of our greatest need, their response was worthy of their sons. Every man not on Active Service can help. In every city, t.own and village are men who, by their training on the farm, or by their present occupation`, can readily adapt themselves to farm-work. These can render no greater service to the Em- pire at the present time than by answering the call of the farm. ' Capable men and boys willing to learn should not allow their lack of farm experience to stand in the way. _ If peace should be declared within a year, the food con- ditions will be no better,` for the accumulated hunger of the Central Empires must be met. This will absorb a large part of the world s supply. Everyone in Great Britain has been put `on limited rations: meat is prohibited. one day aweek and the making of cakes and pastry has been stopped. Further restrictions are anticipated. W donot know when this war shall cease. It is endless- its lengiening out has paralyzed the thought and conception of all men who thought about it and its possible time of con- clusion. .Three months--six months, we said; nine months, a year, we said; and yet two years and eight months have passed their long dreary and sanguinary length and there is no man who can tell how long this gigantic struggle may yet last. Lloyd George, in aletter addressed to farmers throughout the Empire, said: ' _ _ Can the employer render a more signai service in this :cr1s1_s than by encouraging these men to help. the farmer to tCllltlV ;lt6 every availablex acre, and by making it easy for them 0 go. D Ontario sVfarm lands are waiting--the implements are ready-the equipment is comp1ete---the farmer is wil1ing--al1 7 he needs is labor.` V _ So short is the world s food supply that without increased production many in Canada must go -hungry, and even with enormously increased production we cannot expect cheap food. The world is waiting for our harvest. . Orgranization of Resources; Committee, _Pa1;|iament Buildings, Toronto. " The /line` which the British Empire holds". against-the Germans is held `by those who WORK ON THE LAND as` well as by those who fight on land and sea. If it breaks at any point it breaks everywhere. In the face of the enemy the lfseamen ofjour Royal naval and mercantile marine and the soldiers gathered from. every part of our Empire ho-Id our line firstly. You workers on land must hold your part of our line as strongly. Every full day s` labor you do helps to shorten: the strug- gle and `brings us nearer victory. Every idle day, all loitering, lengthens the struggle andmalces de- ? `feat more` possible. Therefore, in the nation s. honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men, and as" workers on land do. your duty with, all your "strength l" e . g . ;' _. E9 ehable_thE_farm t_c_r__lo the work twfa fa`ctors are essen- ,_1 L- "gun: % owe a great debt to thse who are_ ghting for us. Bread has gone to 28 per four-pound` loaf in Eng-3 land, for the first time since the Crimean War. V` Lord Devonport, Britishvliiood Comptroller, pro- poses taking authorityrto search the houses, of Great Britain to prevent food hoarding. Thursd I .1 7r{,-: \. '4 yea bar '50 cei giv the % World-Hunger Stares Us in the Fate David Lubin, representative of the United Statestto the lnternational Institute of Agriculture-maintaine`d -by forty Governments--reports oicially to Washington that the food grains of the worldion` March 31st, 1917. showed a shortage of 150,000,000 bushels below the amount necessary to feed the world until` August, 1917. "He declares it is beyond question that unless a greater -acreage isrput tocrop in 1917 there yvill he _WORLD-HUNGER before the 1918 crop is |.II\.I\- v harvesta: 'l`he,f:iiiure of the grain crop in the Argentine Republic, - `which is `ordinarily :1 great grain._exporting nation, resulted in` an embargo being placed; in` March. 1917. upon the e`xp`o'rt of grains from that coun__try to avert local famine. V `