The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-15
Praise Nations Work
 In Food Production

Philadelphia, Sept 15-The coun- try-wide anxiety as to meeting the biggest problem of the war-conser- vation of agricultural and live stock resources-was described yesterday by national experts at the Worlds Food Conference of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. which met in the assembly room of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
 Intensive farming, the application of the latest methods in animal hus- bandry and economic resourceful- ness on the part of the consumer were the subjects emphasized by the speakers.
 : That the people of the United States in four months of war have grasped 1n full the meaning of conservation, production and reproduction and have thereby set a new pace of na- tional efficiency was strikingiy pointed out by the specialists in every branch of farm cultivation, animal breeding and household management.
 As an instance of the development of the natural resources of the South, Clifford Pinchot, the first X. speaker. said that in that part of the country there was today feed for cattle in excess of the number of animals on the farms 'a
 We have the largest corn crop in years" said Mir. Pinchot, despite the recent frost, which had to be reckon ed with the computing the possibili- ties of the winter supply. The great lesson of the war is the value of col 1ective action. and now is the time for organization and cooperation amopg farmers to stimulate the rais. ing of live stock There is no alarm ing shortage of cattle in this country now. but we must provide for the fu- ture-"
 MT. Ptnchot, after quoting statistics of the milk industry in this country, drew attention to the fact that eight ed for every person, while, he said, in New York city, the daily allowance was only three-tenths of a quart
 -Tf we are to have more milk, the consumer must learn 10 pa>. for it," said w. H. Jordan, director of the New York State Agricultural Expert ment station. who presided at the afternoon conference '-rhis is the only solution to the milk problem In some parts of the country milk can not be produced at the present prices Milk is the most economical food that can be used in the family, and be- cause of It's highly nutritious quail ties the consumer can well afford to pay more for it MIX is not a lux ury, as 1t has been regarded, but the best animal food-''
 Asserting that bread was second : only to bullets as war essential Charles J. Brand, chief of the Bu- reau of Markets of the Department of Agriculture, yesterday said that g relative scarclry of food supplies al- ready existed- This shortage was ere ated partly. he said, by unfavorable crop conditions and partly by the changing of forces of production into forces of destruction. He added however. that the outlook for the q current year was good and there need be no fear of famine so far a. ,America's population was concerned
 Charles Lathrop Pack, president oi the National Emergency Good Gar. den Commission, through whose ac. tivfties since last February hundreds of thousands of war farms have beer established in every city, town and hamlet of the country. said tha through this form of intensive culti vation the nations food supply had been increased to thN extent of nor, than $35o. .o00, 900.