Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-06-22
PREPARE FOR NEXT YEARS
FOOD NOW.

a crucial time in the worlds food
supply will be next year and the year
after next. All that We are doing to-
day looking toward increased food
conservation is merely Il preparation
for what must he done for next years
crop and for the year To follow. and
perachance for years aftc rthat. The
thought of the whole nation should
be centercd upon plans for making
certain larger food production next
years than il would be possible to get
this year. We started too late this
year to accomplish the largest results
but we must begin now to prepare
Tor The year to come.
Congress should Immediately take
some action that would establish n
minimum price for staple food sup
plies in order that farmers might be
justified in purchasing the agricultur-
al implements and the fertilizers and
engaging the labor necessary to in
creasing the acreage under cultiva-
ton. Action should also be taken
that would secure an ample supply of
seed wheat SO that an arrangement
might be put into effect by which we
could this fall add ut least 80 per
cent: to the wheat-growing acreage
of the country. Unless we can in
crease the winter wheat area by %
TO 90 per cent we shall fall very short
of the needs Of the hour in our own
country and i'll the world. We must
consider these questions from the
standpoint Of possibility of bad
weather cutting short the yield of all
crops and, therefore, we NUTS look
to the enlargement of acreage. to the
selection of the best seed that can be
obtained OF all grain and other food
supplies and cotton as well. and we
must make sure that an available
supply OF seed will be obtained, for
otherwise the high prices of grain
migth tempt the farmers to sell off
their entire crop, as they are, to some
extent, doing with their live stock in
selling off much of their breeding
stock which should be kept, tempted
bV the high prices for meat, and at
the same time moved thereto bv the
high cost of food.
The business people of the country
nave been earnest and vigorous in
Trying to arouse II broad interest. in
the enlargement Of our food crons
tins year, bat the iiinc was limited
and the work wa un.ertaken ion
late, and we must now begin n com
paign with still greater vigor. LOOKING
TO the enlargement rc the land under
cultivation in food crops for next wear
ana not n moment should lie LOST i'm
beginning this campaign. 1t behooves
the government to take the lead in
TINS, and congress should PROMPTLY
guarantee minimum price on the
great food staples and .his price
should be high enough to Justify the
farmer In undertaking 10 raise more
1000 supplies, even with the hiph
prices OF labor, of fertilizers and of
I'll other things which add to the b,m-
deh ana The cost Of farmers wor. We
do not believe il at all wiie thnt fo,.
the moment consideration should be
%iNen to fixing Il maximum price. The
non Is now to fix a minimum price
nigh enough TO make certain that the
farmers can draw back into farm
work a sufficient a.nount of labor IN
JUSTIFY them IN increasing their
acreage and in planning for larger
"pefatiocs next wear. If this should
be put into effect. much ne.y land
would be cultivated and many pco-
pie not now engaged in farming. but
VINO are familiar with farm onera-
lions, would go back into farm work
ana landowners everywhere would |
operations. Congress and the admi,o
iStration Will make srr;ous rnista;fe
IL TINS work is not taken nm inn
medlately in order that the macbin.
cry Tor working out this plan NAV he |
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