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The Seaforth News, 1917-05-10, Page 8S 8 W011.1A er1E 131I1,AISil 1:41tA DANT, Credit, t. East, Ontario, says; 1 fool it illy duty to ,ay fl word Oil 0a191+ fW' 13utnratHEi+1 }tune Black 1 Fertilizer which 1 maid last spring on a burley field Una oth,•r oeopi, with very l goad results, 1tX.1'11A STRAW PAYS. 14^t;'i'11,1Zl:it i 1311,J. 1i.. ti 1I.8ON, Tiled bird, says: ..Have been naitiit 11o41este4d roue Black Fertilizers for the past tun pure !nal eau roo>.,111i19n=1 them lis tihst- 81866• 1 believe 1 got enough extra 1 straw to pay for the fertilizer and some years, almost, if not fifty 1,t r cent more wheat per acre by file ;Int. roach year that 1 sou a i,iuce without fertilizer and the difference between the fertilized and the unfertilized Is so great each year that 1 ann fully convinced it daeenet pay gnu to sow wheat without fertiliser." 130 13138k4ELkt t O.B. L'k:L. twl%1'ol ARC&ITL DICK, +'1:ath:,c1, Ontario says: 'I have 118e4 kI;ut„atr,4 Borne Black Fertilizer and con t'"'cuca ntlt.l it very s,yg4ily, 1 pelt 111'. t , , ,ria i:leven XCrv6 darn and Although t`e, ground was ter; from tint field 1 roudize.l .1`tit ahela t. too acre. There were tailor lr tlds ut fert11lh,uas hoed in our lariglaliorho•_,d, but they 1tidn't prove as satisfactory as the 1'1' coestead." Write 31i Mash Carbons Works L1"- r;a, for free took -and particulars t'o out their Homestead Rollo Black Fertilizer. The Oil for the AlIllete.-111 rubbing flown, the athlete can find nothing (:her than Dr. Thomas' Eolt.ctric Oil., It renders the r,moetes. and :40E668 tttiable, takes the soreness out of them esi,1 etrengthous them for strains that 'coy be put upon then. 11 stand pre. eminent for this purpose, and athletes who for years have been using it can testify t0 its value as a iubr'icant a Why (suffer from corns when they can be painlessly rooted out by using lollowny's Corn Cure. HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS MAY 8th TO OCTOBER 30th Every TU ESDAY "ALL RAIL" - also by THURSDAY'S S '1A r ER " Cretl Lio<es Rn,.°es" "on er, 7118 9818,,' YOU!' r'alttsra 1s ata the West Ti ir, WrJAem 51 .1 6 t 5t:}l an 7aa,1 ‘1,.0613 • 4t.G'f. .I4:tie5 8, imL'br Steamer Greyhound annul Excursion Goderich to Detroit and ret>Larn15--- GOING goat q.So a eov LUNE 12 RETURN 1e at 1 Detroit JUNE 14 ROUND TRIP $2.00 s1.50 ONE tvAY The Only Boat trip from Goderich to Detroit this sea—. son. 1c0 TROUBLE ON ACCO'U N'1' or NEW 1MMIt7BAT10N LAW Caned dans doming to Detroit for a temporary stay are not required to pay a head tax or matte a deposit Itamigratiou offloora on steamer to pass e:torlrsionists. BANUi6001fLIIHT Monday evoning Jttnewtl, t 6 p ln. 1;1tU White Star Line DTviioh. , IT Tk1 S APORT11 NEWS tC. 't rlt 0tIi"H ONTARIO in the nation's honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men. As workers on the land, do your 4Pill duty with all your strength!" • -Lloyd George. THE CRISIS France, England and Italy in peace times did not depend upon America but on Russia, Roumania and Bulgaria sor most of their breadstuffs. With these sources closed the crisis of the hour demands that we see that our soldiers and the Motherland are fed. Everyone in Greta 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 four -pound loaf in Eng- land, for the first time since the Crimean War. Lord Devonport, British Food Comptroller, pro- poses taking authority to search the houses of Great Britain 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 torpedoed since February 1st, 1917. Germany's hope for victory is in the starvation of Britain through the submarine. Canada's sons will have died in vain if hunger compels the Motherland's 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? World -Hunger Stares Us in the Face David Lubinrepresentative 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 31st, 1947, showed a shortage of 150,000,000 bushels below the amount necessary to feed the world until August, 4917. He declares it is beyond question that unless a greater acreage is put to crop in 1917 there will be WORLD -HUNGER before the 4948 crop is harvested. The failure of the grain crop in the Argentine Republic, which is ordinarily a great grain -exporting nation, resulted in an embargo being placed, in March, 1917, upon the export of grains from that country to avert local famine; The United States Department of Agriculture, in its official report, announcesthe 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 4946 crop was poor. Even with favorable weather, the wheat crop of the United States is likely to be the smallest in thirty-five years, not more than 64% of the normal crop. Lader date of April 40th, Ogden Armour, executive head of Armour 8c Company, one of the world's 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 world-wide. European production is cut in half, the Argentine Republic has suffered droughts. Canada and the United States must wake upl Hunger Tightening His Grip --New York ffiB'Cntns MOM People are starving to -day in Belgium, In Serbia, In Poland, in Armenia, in many quarters of the globe. Famine conditions are becoming more wide -spread every day. On these alarming food conditions becoming known, President 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 Commission 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 it carry our Allies through with their full fighting stalnina." The Prob:!em fin. Ontario The land under cultivation in Ontario in 1916 was 365,6.w acres less than in 1915. Consider how much LESS Ontario produced in 1916 than the raised in 1915: 1916 t)I CREAShs Year :lyres Bushels /acres Bushels Fail Wheal Barley and Oats . .. . Peas and Beans . . . . Corn Potatoes and Carrots . . 1916 704,867 14,942,050 1915 811,185 24,737,011 1916 529,886 12,398,969 1915 552,318 19,893,129 1916 95,512 1,243,979 1915 126,943 2,043,049 1916 258,332 12,717,072 1915 309,773 21,700,496 Id anl:el-W urzels 1916 139,523 7,408,429 1915 173,934 13,267,023 1916 42,793 9,756,015 and Turnips .... 1915 50,799 25,356,323 Other crops show as critical decline. Reports from Ontario on the condition of faIl wheat for 1917 are decidedly discouraging. 105,315 24,432 31,401 51,441 34,411 8,006 9,794,961 7,504,169 799,070 9,043,424 5,.858,594 15,600,308 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 1917 unless extra labor is supplied. —Photo from London (Eng.) Bystander, A 15 -year Old Girl at Work Miss Alexandra Smith, one of the thousands of British women workers on the land. She recently won an All -Comers' Cham- pion prize for plowing. Food Production is the Greatest Problem the World Faces To -day Owing to destruction by submarines, ocean ships are scarce. It 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 grown in India or four tons grown in Australia. Why the Call to Canada is So Urgent If this country does not raise a big crop this year, not only will 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. ,pelykted sr the 2.10 ,uoml x. ;Unger, Nor 108 ... 'rhe Second. Line trenches --.1rrC'ny in The Sew Pork amerienn, The farmers know that they are the last reserve, and that the soil on which crops are grown is the strategic ground on which wars are decided. To their care is entrusted the base of supplies. To enable the farm to do the work two factors are essen- tial. The first is Time. Whatever we are to do must be done at once. Nature waits for no man. The second is Labor.. Many farmers cannot plant the acres they would because they cannot get the necessary help. Many are afraid to increase their acreage because they fear they would not be able to culti- vate and harvest an unusual crop after they have raised it. If they are to do the work that is essential for them to do, the last man in each city, town and village must be mobilized at once. Every man not on Active Service can help. In every city, town 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. Can the employer render a more signal service in this crisis than by encouraging these men to help the farmer to cultivate every available acre, and by making it easy for thent to go? Ontario's 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 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. If peace should be declared within a year, the food con- ditions will be no better, forthe accumulated hunger of the. Central Empires must be met This will absorb a'large part of the world's 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;.lnine 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: " 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 if "breaks everywhere. In the face of the enemy the "seamen of our Royal naval and mercantile marine nand the soldiers gathered from every part of our "Empire hold 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 and makes 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 1" 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. We owe a great debt to those who are fighting for us. Organization of Resources Committee, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. Chairman: 3338 Honour, Sir John 3. Heodrle, K.C.M.O., C.' Lieutenant -Governor of Ontario; Vice -Chairmen: Honourable sir W3 - nam H. Hearat, K.C.M.4I., Prime Minister of Ontario; N. W. Rowell . Esq., B.C.. Leader of the Opposition; secretary: Albert H. Abbott . Beg., Ph.D.