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Bread has gone to 28¢ per fourâ€"pound loaf in Mmthefimt'-esiwe':;:(?ur;manf e Devonport, British Food Comptroller, m‘uk'l;uuhuitylomrd) the houses of G':'d’ ain to prevent food hoarding. . Forty million men, less the cas alties, are now on active service. Twenty million men and women are 1 !fiembyservioei\othetmndwm"' woporine In the last analysis, the land is bevring this burden. One million tons of foodâ€"carrying ships have been worpedoed since February 1st, |917. : Germany‘s hope for victory is in the starvation of MBritain through the submarine. Canada‘s sons will have died in vain if hanger eonpelslheflodnrhndswrrendeh r. The land is waitingâ€" is readyâ€"will ie male mhe poogh mighoe thenitie smont ‘fiwwum&ufi.wd ia‘for most of their breadstuffs With these |sources closed the crisis of the hour demands that we isee 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 making of cakes and pastry has been stopped. Further westrictions are anticipated. The United States lxgammm of Agl'u‘ultuu. in . its official report, announces the c adition of the fall wheat cro (which is twoâ€"thirds of their total wheat crop) on April |s£ 1917, to be the Kuurcsl ever recorded and !ml'wu a yield of 244,000, 000 bushels below the crop of 1915. The 1916 crop was rmr. Even with favorable weather, the wheat crop of the United States is likély to be the smallest in thirtyâ€"live gears, not more than 64% of the normal crop. Under date uf April 10th, ()&.I:n Armour, executive head of Armour & Compiny, one of 1 world‘s Iaria( dealers z food products, stated that unless the United Stites wishes walk ‘deliberately into a catastrophe, the best brains of country, under Government supervision, _ must devise"‘ means of increasing and c«nmvu‘u Armiour urged the cultivation â€" available acre. Ia food !iofll‘t. he sald, is wOrkt « .¢. Ew:’u pro is cut in half, the l.;fienflu Republic has suffered droughts. Canada and the ‘avited States must wake up! Famine and Worldâ€"Hunger «, ,;Are On Our Thresnold Gqppeqates = WEDNESDAY, MAY @, 1917 y C 2l\ AuSs t 1 3 la ‘;:; r oi 11E "C M Ore E O E. , England and Italy in peace times did not in the nation‘s howser, heed ! :lnh h'td.fi s on t your daty with all your strength!" EThe ProblemforOnhHoi Consider how much LESS Ontarko produced | 1916 than she raised in 1915; The tand under cultivation in Ontario in 916 365,000 acres less than in 1915. On (m:o:lum food conditions becomiy known, President immediqiely appointed a Food (mptrolier for the United States He selected Herbert C. loover, to M&ewflkh‘euedumk-audlziemtbml Belgium Relief Commission for his persomal direson of the distribution of food among the starving Belgians. stamina. * Other crops show as critical declime, Reports from Ontario on the condition of i1 wheat tor 1917 are decidedly discouraging. As there is an average of not._more thamne man on each hmz:;c;g. acres oC.m hm..hll in nhrl&. ‘l‘: cis te even a still sma wer gultiva E‘?fi‘r unless extra labor is supplied. ;m ‘_fl day. Mr, Hoower is already urging sacritice and (od restricâ€" tions, for, as be states, "IYuew-lilrnhly_ st another year and we shall have all we can do to supply t necessary People arc starving toâ€"day in Belgiwim, in serbia, in Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of the globe Miss Alexandra Smith, one of the t?n‘s of workers on the land. _ She recently w an Allâ€" pion prize for phig. SCarce Theretore, every ton of food worth to the Motherland two toms gr grown in Australia. will the Allies wh nol and main Food Production is the (Gatest the World Faceroâ€"day P e SA e it Why the Call to_&litlfi U Famine cunditions are becoming more wideâ€"sread every Cwing to destruction by Ons ve ic cartry our Allies through with their !! fighting It is much casier to protect #ing bet A 15â€"year Old GI at Work MilC rda saxt ioR 300.TB 24.%0,06 rown l1 ladia 1916 mOBK Anp: pt«| Â¥ent four tons was response was worthy of their sous So, for the honor of Canada‘s seidiers in France ~am for the glory of uur Newâ€"bern Nationhoodâ€"let it be <â€"i) .¢f Outario‘s cilizens that, in the hour of our greatest need their We do not know when this war shall cease. It is endl its lengthening out has paralyzed the thought and conce of all men who lmhl about it and its possible time of chuston. Three six months, we said; nine mon year, we said; and yet two years and cight months have p their long dreary and sanguinary length and there is no who can tell how long this gigantic struggle may yet ‘ast the If peace should be declared within a year, ditions will be no beiter, for the accumulated Central Empires must be met. This will absorb the world‘s supply. To enable the farm to do the work two factors are cssenâ€" tinl The first is Time. Whatever we are to do mast be done at once. Nature waits for no man. The secomnd is Lab». h"'-'e-fllhd&om&q-dlbu-_.‘ry cannot get the necessary help. _ Many are afraid to incresse their acreage because they fear they would not be able to cu‘tâ€" ‘flw-â€"lmfic&qhwrfid'l. i "’mbb&twâ€"t&diflb&-hhfiu man in each city, tov«1 and village must be mobilized at one«. 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. Every man nos on Active Service can hdfi In every c town and villars are men wno, by their training on the fa or by their pesent occupation, can readily adapt themselve farm work. These can render no greater service to the } pire at the present time than by ans‘-eflnfi‘lbe call of the f2 ll?‘rblc men and boys willing to learn should not allow t of farm s»meriesice to stand in the way. Ontario‘s farm lands are waitin readyâ€"ithe equipment is m-'knâ€"l he needs is labor. The farmers know that they arc that the soil on which crops are ‘.mu.-, on which wars are decided. To their c Can the employer render a mure ‘signal service in \his crisis than by mow’lél:( these men to hc'lp the farmer to gll::,lle every available acre, and by making it easy for them Organization of Resources Committce, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. 27â€" _ TC,° HTeep® _ Therefort, in the nation‘s ‘"‘honour, heed ! Aq-'c.n-nh.l&o-cu.a.d.. WLLik e LC lewk & L T Liovd George, in a letter addressed to farmers throuy twoast Empire, said: *‘ The lime which the British Empire hodds "-ohu*c‘-.nbulby those who WORK ; ON THE LAND as well as by thase who ‘ight "on land and sea. If it breaks at any point it ‘‘broaks everywhere. In the face of the emem» the "mdo-.o.l...l-dMn-n’- "-Jfb.&.g“hh,dqmo. our "Empire hoid our lime Firstly. You workers on lamd "u-th".-mdo.h.M. Cvery "fulldqy’n“w.n-bbh to shorten the sirugâ€" “,b-dw-mu'em. Every idle day, ‘all loitering, lengthens Lh struggle and makes deâ€" We owe a great debt to those who are fehtine for So short is the world‘s food supply that without incr o‘s farm lands are waitingâ€"the im ts are IW! is M farmer l"x.,. â€"2aB *# d be declared within a year, the foow! conâ€" beiter, for the accumulated hunger o+ :he met. This will absorb a large part they are me‘lcm reserve, and ire grown is the strategic grou»d To l"ek care is entrusted the baâ€"e COnCe Di to MM= M cir