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are investigating Mr Lemon of Poplar Lodge Ave cows have given to seven lalvos Ibis spring wore two pairs of twin heifer calves POO I i i J I A J i it I i J ft i i ii 1 y i I I Mr K Merchant purchased an auto last Mr Hen Smith received a mes- Inst week Informing him ilmi son Pic Leo Smith had seriously wounded while In potion in Franco many friends of J who recently londered fain resignation as rector of St Mary Magdalene Church will pleased lo learn thai after ho line decided to remain KINO The Womens Institute King East Branch will hold its next meeting at the Methodist Parson age home of Mrs D Hoy Gray oil Friday afternoon May 4th at oclock Kind- that day is Friday in stead of the usual Thursday This is the annual business mooting ami election of officers A full attendance of all members is required Those who are ab sent expect to be voted into Of flee The program is as fol lows A paper on The Function the Rural Church by Mrs Morion Care of the Foot by Miss and Waste Necessary and Unnecessary by Mis las Oil lies Roll Call Hints All members come prepared to vole for new officers Mr and Mrs Toronto spent Saturday with Mr and Mrs J Cutting Mr and Mrs A Archibald of spent Thursday with her parents Mr mid Mrs Pat- ton Mr Harry Shanks of Called on Mr it Cook on Sunday Miss Cutting of Toron to spent ho weekend with some friends at and with her parents here Mrs Dove spent Thursday Willi Mrs Smith Miss Francis of Toron to spent Sunday with her uncle Mr J Cutting Mrs Gould and Mrs Wil son spent Wednesday with Mrs Hughes Mr Ward Cook called on friends at Kotllehy recently A from here attended Church at on Sunday wight VIRGINIA A large number of ladies and Sen tie men congregated at the home Mr Wesley on Friday evening to bid farewell to his daughter Pearl who left on Monday morning for Wetland where she has- decided to train for a nurse As she has always officiated at the organ for all the both for church ana school since she came to Vir ginia three years ago she will be sadly missed in the community She was presented with a beauti ful pearl necklace and cold meat fork by Mrs A and Miss Ethel while Miss our teacher read an ad dress expressing regrets at her departure and the high esteem in which she is held by her Friends The address was well worded Mr Wesley received a telegram on Saturday morning slating that his son Clarence of the Ontario County was wounded in France on the of April STEELE Copied from ihc Second Volume of Canak in Flanders MajorGeneral Steeles career in the army reads more like a ro mance than reality Having dis tinguished himself as a mere boy in all his examinations while at tached lo life British Regulars then stationed in Canada he left Alio Service only lo rejoin as a ranker in the lied River of Here he spent year in Fort Carry which was IJien the West After 2i short lime in the Royal Canadi- Artillery he went West again became a Major in the Alberta lield Fercc during the rebellion of having raised his own corps of Steeles Scouts He through nil the lighting of summer and Anally broke up Dig Rears band at Lake a place in the Great Northern where no white man had ever set foot as soon as he rush began he was at lo se cure the frontier erect customs and prevent American miu- fiu claims on the wrong side of a vast frontier In ho was and military representative Government in the Yukon The South War brought Mm immediately into the field- WSUiitt the ffpace of five days he jAtern- j 7 the nation honour heed in Belgium in Serbia In iv lik men Poland in Armenia in many quarters of the globe Acquit worker on land do your are becoming more widespread every duty all your l6 Q food conditions becoming known Preside France England and Italy in peace times did not depend upon America but on Russia and Bulgaria for most of their With thse sources closed the crisis of the hour demands that we see 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 restrictions are anticipated Bread has gone to 28c per fourpound loaf in Eng land for the first time since the Crimean War Lord British Food Comptroller pro poses taking authority to search the houses of Great Britain to prevent 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 foodcarrying ships have been torpedoed since February 1st Germanys hope for victory is in the starvation of Britain through the submarine Canadas sons will have died in vain if hunger compels the Motherlands surrender The land is waiting the plough is ready will we make the plough mightier than the sword Will we help the acres to save the flag Wilson immediately appointed a Food Comptroller for the United States He selected Herbert C Hoover to whom the world is indebted as Chairman of the International Belgium Relief Comrpission for his personal direction of the distribution of food among the starving Belgians Mr Hoover is already urging sacrifice and food restric tions for as he states The war will probably last another year and we shall have all we can do to supply the necessary food carry our Allies through with their full stamina- The for Ontario was The land under cultivation in Ontario in acres less than in 1915 Consider how much LESS Ontario produced in than she raised In J a f i j Pali Wheat Barley and Peas and Year Acres Bushels 1016 1010 03512 Bushels Acres 31401 Corn Potatoes and Carrots fcfongelWurrela and Turnips 1910 1010 50700 Other crops show as critical decline Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for are decidedly discouraging As there is an average of not more than one man on each hundred acres of farm land in Ontario the prospects indicate even a still smaller acreage under cultivation in unless extra labor is supplied David representative of the United States to the International Institute of Agriculture maintained by forty Governments reports officially to Washington that the food grains of the world on March showed a shortage of bushels below the amount necessary to feed the world until August He declares it is beyond question that unless a greater acreage is put to crop in there will be WORLDHUNGER before the crop is harvested The failure of the grain crop in the Argentine Republic which is ordinarily a great grainexporting nation resulted in an embargo being placed in March upon the export of grains from that country to avert local famine The United States Department of Agriculture in its official report announces the condition of the fall wheat crop which is twothirds of their total wheat crop on April 1st to be the ever recorded and predicts a yield of 244000000 bushels below the crop of The crop was poor Even with favorable weather the wheat crop of the United States is likely to be the smallest in thirtyfive years not more than of the normal crop Under date of April Armour executive head of Armour Company one of the worlds largest dealers in food products stated that unless the United States wishes to walk deliberately into a catastrophe the best brains of the country under Government supervision must immediately devise means of increasing and conserving food supplies Armour urged the cultivation of every available acre The food shortage he said is worldwide European production is cut in half the Argentine Republic has suffered droughts Canada and the United States must wake up Photo from London A ISyear Old Girl at Work Miss Alexandra Smith one of the thousands of British women workers on the land She recently won an AllComers Cham pion prize for plowing Production is the Greatest Problem the World Faces Today Hunger Tightening Hig kin New York Owing to destruction by submarines ocean ships are scarce is much easier to protect shipping between Canada and England than on the longer voyages from India or Australia One vessel can make twice as many trips from Canada to Britain as from India and four times as many as from Australia Therefore every ton of food stuffs grown in Canada is worth to the Motherland two tons in India or four tons grown in Australia Why the Call to Canada is So Urgent MH4T if this country does not raise a big crop this year not only the people of Canada suffer but the Motherland and her Allies will suffer and their military power will be weakened if not paralyzed Therefore the right solution of the present war problem comes back to the farm as to a foundation upon which our whole national and international structure must be built and maintained I within a month he hail hem ready lo move from Ottawa truly a miraeulous performance In Africa he saw a good deal of lighting in Natal and the district east of Pretoria notably Belfast On IU00 ha mentioned in despatches obtained the Queen medal with four elaaps and fin ally look command of a of the new South African Con At this ha sit months he orders of Lord y The Second- Line Trenches in The W4- The farmers know that they are the last reserve and that the soil on which crops are grown is the strategic ground on which vars are decided To their care is entrusted the base of supplies To enable the farm to do the vorh hvo factors are ejscn- The first is Time Whatever we are to do must be done at once Nature vaits for no man The second is Labor Many cannot plant the acres they would because they get the necessary help Many are afraid to their acreage they fear they vould not be able to culti vate and harvest an unusual crop after they have raited it If they arc to do the work that is essential for them to do the kit man in each city town and village roust ha mobilized at once Every man not on Active Service can help In every city village are men vho 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 Can the employer render a more signal service in this crisis than by encouraging these men to help the fanner to cultivate every available acre and by making it easy for them to go Ontarios farm lands are waiting the implements are ready the equipment is complete the farmer is willing all he needs is labor So short is the worlds food supply that without increase 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 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 worlds supply We do not know when this war shall cease It is endless- its lengthening 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 a letter addressed to farmers throughout the Empire said k 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 If it breaks at any point it In the face of the enemy of our Royal naval and mercantile marine and tho gathered from every part of our Empire hold our firstly You workers on land must hold your part of our line as strongly Every full days labor you do helps to shorten th and brings us nearer victory Every idle day all loitering lengthens the struggle and makes feat mora possible Therefore in the nations honour heed Acquit yourselves like men and as workers on land do your duty with all your strength on land and sea breaks everywhere it It it So for the honor of Canadas soldiers in France and for the glory of our Newborn Nationhood let it be said of Ontarios citizens that in the hour of our greatest need their response was worthy of their sons We owe a great debt to those who are fighting for us of Resources Committee Parliament Toronto Chairman Honour John LieutenantGovernor of Ontario Honourable fair Wil liam Prime of Ontario W KC leader of Ihe Opposition Secretary Albeit If PhD Abbott I whom lie became intimately In after a period of mixed civil and military ration Africa lie re turned to ho Dominion- lo take over the of he Western panada military district a post lie occupied December thousand six hundred men went from his command in the West to First Canadian Con Urgent and before ho left command Division no than men in the the FINED Li Thai the country postmaster must not go any further than re quired by his official duties in is suing money orders for the pa trons of the longdistance dispensaries was brought out very plainly recently when Mr Samuel palmer postmas ter at Appeared before Magistrate at Owen Sound on a charge of in the of was clear that Mr Palmer had without any prospect of fin- gain in Ore transaction and without knowing that he was bleating the taw and magis trate imposed the minimum fine of magistrate Said that under the circumstances bo had no option under the law but lo lino defendant but intimated that ho would place circum stances before the Department at Toronto with a view to having the one named bought a postal note from Mr Palmier for the Co of Hull Is a German to write and asked the postmaster to or for him a of whiskey and In- complied with request charging the modest sum of Bye for the service The liquor forward in nemo but when it lauded at inspector happened fcloHB grid salted the rase when asked- to explain him so the Inspector charge against the Mr Palmer admitted his lion with affair hut did J the position in was placed In writing Ihe A member the Commission said twenty fiUhmariues and their by the JA quality Our ELEOl The I I AUTO Phone Capita Real Total J Bant put men cates C There There v I orders v MY CI Order hi Mo Ore ft TORONTO