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PN La 3 o____ France, England and Italy in peace times did not de upon America but on Russia, Roumania and a or 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 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 28¢ per four-pound loaf in Eng- land, for the first time since the Crimean War. Lord Devonport, British Food Comptroller, pro- taking authority to search the houses of Great itam 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. Io the Inst analysis, the land is bearing this burden. One million tons of food-carrying ships have been torpedoed since February lst, 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 Lubin, representative of the United States to the International Institute of Agriculture--maintained by forty Governments--reports officially to Washington that the food rains of the world on 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 uestion that unless a greater Bereags is put to crop in 1917 thiere will be WORLD-HUNGER fore the 1918 crop is harvested. The failure of the grain crop in the Argentine Re ublic, which is ordinarily a great grain-exporting nation, resu ted in an-embargo being placed, in March, 1917, upon the export of grams from that country to avert local famine. The United States Department of Agriculture, in its ofigial report, announces the condition of thé fall wheat yi: (which is two-thirds of their total wheat crop) on April 1 1917, to be the est ever recorded and Jedi a yield 244,000,000 bushels below the crop of 1915. The 1916 crop Even with favorable weather, the wheat crop of the Onited States is likely to be the smallest in thirty-five years, not more than 64% of the normal crop. Under date of April 10th, Ogden Armour, executive besd of Armour & 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 availa food shortage, he said, is world-wide. is cut in h Canada and the Unit le acre. The European production "the Argentine Republic has suffered droughts. States must wake up! 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 ear and we shall have all we can do to supply the necessary tod tc Carry our Allies theugh with their full fighting ina. The Problem for Ontario 1916 was The land under cultivation in Ontario in 365,000 acres less than in 1915. Consider how much LESS Ontario produced*in 1916 than she raised in 1915: 1916 DECREASE Acres 'Bushel, Year Acres Bushels Wheat . . . . «+» 6 867 050 Phe ofS TAA SBOE 165315 9794961 Barley and pals ix oi 5 Sa up 7,504,160 PRLEIE IL be mss esas AM TTS SNE v danas iis Sea Rim 51,441 9,043,424 Posen ta JTL Ws mn nam SWAN 558564 marae... 45 some maems S06 15600308 Other crops show as critical decline. Reports from Ontario on the condition of fall wheat for 1917 are decidedly discouraging. As there is an average of not more than one man on each hundred acres of farm land in Ontario, the rospects indicate even a still smaller acreage under cultivation n 1917 unless extra labor is supplied. --Phete from Londen (Eng.) Bystander. A 15-year Old Girl at Work Miss Alexandfa Smith, one of the thousands of British women workers on the land. She recently won an All.Comers' Cham- pion prize for plowing. S-- F---- i Food Production is the Greatest Problem | the World Faces To-day Cwing to destruction by submarines, ocean ships are scarce. It is much easier to grotest 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. y oy Why the Call to Canada 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. - : : a is So The farmers know that they are the last reserve, that the soil on which crops are grown is the strategic gr on which wars are decided. To their care is entrusted the of supplies. To enable the farm to do the work two factors are tial. The first is Time. Whatever we are to do must be done at once. Nature waits for no man. The second i § : g ¥ i £ g Every man not on Active Service can help. In every city, town and 'village are men who, by their training on the 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.: able 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 Suitivate every available acre, and by making it easy for thems 0 gO Ontario's farm lands are waiting--the implements are ready--the equipment is complete--the farmer 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. i _ 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. 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, ear, we said; and yet two years and eight months have passed' - eir 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 throughouti the Empire, pr gh ; "'seamen of our Royal naval and mercantile marine ""and the soldiers gathered from every part of ow "Empire hold our line firstly. You workers on lant ""must hold your part of our line as strongly. Eve "fall day's labor you do helps to shorten the str 'gle and brings us nearer victory. Every idle *"all loitering, lengthens the struggle and makes d "feat more possible. Therefore, in the nation "honour, heed! Acquit yourselves like men, and ai "workers on land do your duty with all your "strength I" . ig So, for the honor of Canada's soldiers in France for the glory of our New-born Nationhood--let it be Ontario's cifizens that, in the hour of our greatest need, response was worthy of their sons. 3 We owe a great debt to those who are fighting for us. Organization of Resources Committee, | Parliament Buildings, Toronto. Chairman: His Honour, Sir John 8. Hend KC Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario; en: Honour: lam H. K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of Ontario; N. Bsq., K.C, er of the Opposition; Secretary: Albert