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, " any: VO'I' Jd,'; . r"lli't, iniiik iutTi, "I" mill . ' tart - "all“ I"... In" "tar. It" Ila-I. ara [unq- troll. t n.- {rill Br m M10. bl- 'IID' Hr Famine and Worlld-lRunger “a; Are On Our Threshold France, England and Italy in peace times did not nd upon America but on Russia. Roumama and item for most of their breadstugs. With these rces closed the crisis of the hour demands that we that our soldiers and the Motherland are fed. ' Everyone in Great Britain has been put on limited rations: _ meat is prohibited one day a week and the king of cakes and pastry has been stopped. Further estrictions are anticipated. Bread has gone to 28c per Iour-pountl loaf in Eng- ' for the first time since the Crimean War. Lord Devonport, British Food Comptroller. pro- s tatipg authority to search the houses of Great ritain to prevent food hoarding. . 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. in the last analysis. the land is bearing this burden. One million tons of food-carrying ships have been torpedoes] since February Ist. l9l7. . Germany's hope lor victory is in the starvation oi Britain through the submarine. _ Canada's sons will have died in vain if hunger compels the Netherlands surrender. f w..--', land is seitint-1ther plug ‘5 "mb---will ive make the plough mightier than sword? Will we help the acres to save the flag? David Lubin. representative of the United States to the International Institute of "irrii;aiierrt.ta.intlirtead, tw forty "tie,,'."',,","',',',?-,;',','),',",',',', ulticially to Washington that the food {ruins of the world on March “st, 19t7. showed a shortage of ”0.000.000 bushels below the amount necessary to feed the world until August, t917. He declares it is beyond whoa that unless a greater acreage is put to crop in H)” i re {2| he WORLD-HUNGER before the t9t8 crop is arm e . , The United States Nytlil'l of Agriculture. in its ollielal report, announces t condition of t e tall wheat crop (vhleh ls two-thirds of thelr total wheat crop) on. April Isl. 19t7. to he the more“ ever recorded and predicts a yield of 244,000,000 bus is below the crop of I91. . The torts crop was r. Even with favorable weather. the wheat crop of the mud States is likely to be the smallest in thlrty-tive years. not more than (use of the normal crop. Under date ol April toth, f'e',' Armour, executive head of Armour a cst!g,'f?i,' one of t world's largest dealers In food products. stated hat unless the United States wishes to walk deliberating; into a catastrophe. the best brains orthe country, under ‘ovenunent supervision. must immediately devise means of increasing and conserving food supplies. Armour urged the cultivation of every available acre. The food 't"l',T he said, is world-wide. European production is cut in ha f, the Argentine Republic has sutlered droughts. Canada and the United States must wake up! We Must Produce More Food WEIHIISIMV. IA!’ 3. "I? World-Hunger Stag The failure. m; ONTARIO THE CRISIS in the nation's honour- - Aug-it you“ like men. _ti 74: motion on the land. " 10" "s" -, Mtrty with " your "v-ht" .-Lloyd George. of the grain gov in the Argeptine Renqlrligc: Face in oi People are starving lap-day in' Belgium, In Serbia, Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of the globe. Famine conditions are becoming more wide-Tread a day. On these atarmbng food conditions becoming known. President Wilson immediately appointed a Food Comptroller for the United states. He selected Herbert C. Hoover. to whom the would is indebted as Chairman of the international Belgium Relief Camtntission tor his personal direction at the distribution of food among the starving Beyans., . Mr. Hoover is alrcaqF-urging sacritia, and food restrie. ttons, for, as he states. " he war will probably last another year and we shall hove all we an do to supply the necessary tooth carry our Allies through whh their full tightitfg s mama." [ri-IT, The land under guitieatltttt in Onudo' in IOIG was 365.000 acres less than in t9tS. Consider how much LESS Ontario produced In 1916 than she raised in 1915: . -_.- _ ...._. Full What . . Barley Ilnl oat. M.. Potato" and Corral. . . mo i-lM-‘l 7.”.‘09 " a .. ms mm manual MAtt mm: Mumd-Wuueb me am mum and 1mm. .. . m5 :0:- wam W - Other crops show as critical decline. Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for 1917 are decidedly discouraging. _ As there is an avenfc of not more than one man on each hundred acres o farm land in Ontario. the Ettttt.ett.e1tit..vtt..ttetl!eyeiltt""'ee undet cultivation G -i- bi TuiikTsi%ifri iatior is supplied. Miss Alexandra Go, one of the thousands of British women aorkets on the land. She recently won an Ati.Comers' Cham- pion prize for plowing. ' Owing scarce. It is much easier to protect shipping between Canada and. atfuld than on the longer voyaxes from India or us " a. Amalia. Otte vmcl cau'makc twice as many trips from Canada to Britain as front lndla. and four “um " many as from “town in Australia, Therefore, evgry ton of food sturs grown in Canada ls worth to the Motherland two tons grown in India or fpur tons LiEEiiijeit. '_---.-" lf this country does hot mise a lit crop this yeah not only will the people of Canada stiller but the Motheriaml and her - __ " ...m___, ----. ...m In -aba"smd If VIII “W pull”: v- unw- ....-. __. -"" Allies will alter and that Wr‘y‘pom will be weakened If Food Production is the Greatest Problem the World Faces To-day A IS-rear on can iit'7i'i);'i' r, Problem for Ontario lo destruction by submarines. ocean ship, Mr, I,“ I’ll: SHIRE It)“ HE!!! will. 'Mrit,Mr iii is s, Urgent “5.115 "Mt up" human; 1,5“.l. QM] every in S are The farmers know that they a that the soil on which craps are gm on which wars are decided. To.thei; of supplies. an. Thh'ucin'l'hn. ihail-etoasmeteef Ito-u. Nat-ovul- ht no I... Thus-alim- “vbâ€"sMpI-Itfiomfiq'wwm wwmmw- . ”.91133. "as. fr."'".""""'""?.""'."? - -- -.-.'- w "_-e-"" . irii;"iva7UiGiiTiGTirituFakiG-.attfe 7ii"iia%TaiTirUi'auiGFiNriNryereudP. lf hmbdo'lbtwluiuMluhhbfl‘ul-t iaGiTaGGiiUaGrGrau-tu-ui-"to-. Everyman not on Active Service can heist. In mutiny. town and village are men who. by their train " on the taunt, or by their present occupation, can readily adapt themselves to farm work. These can render no greater service to the Em. tt at the present time than by answering the all of the farm. gable men and boys willing to learn should not allow their lac of farm experience to stand In the way. _ _ -.r , - . . Can the emplo'yer render a more slgnal service In this crusts than by 1"iia'tft,ii,1', these men to help the farmer to fultlvgtc every availab e acre, and by making it easy for them 0 go.' . Ontatio's farm lands are t2etat', Implement: are ready-rthe cairn!" k complct he farmer wiNttp--a0 he needs ls la t. . So short is the world's food supply that without irtcreasry) production many in Canada must go hungry, and even with enormously increased production we cannot expect cheap (and. The world is walling for our harvest. I If peace should be declared within a year. the toodett. ditlons will be no better, for the accumulated hunger ot the Central Empires lust be met. This will absorb a large part at the wotld's supply. We do not know when this war shall cease. It is ettdless-- its lengthening out has paralyled the thought and conception of all men . o thou ht about it and its possible time of con- clusion. Three "lll1'lil's'el'l't months, we said; nine month. a year. we said; and yet two years and el t months have passed their long dreary and sanguinary lea and there is no man who can tell how long this gigantic smut: may yet last. Mo d Geprge, in a letter alarmed to [m throughout the h'flfr'e,' said'. To-ut-toat-twoe-f."','?" “TL. (in. which the Brit“ We hold "again-t the Gun-m in hold by thou who WORK "ON THE LAND u In" an Ir than who if.” we oie a new '01 'a"--.. - , can to those who are lighting ior us. they are the last reserve, and l." grown is the strategic gtound l'o their care is tntrusted the base