Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-27

ship In the corn belt. six miles square.
or 36 square miles, IA 160-acre farms.
II will have $50 votes, counting in
| one village and including hired men
and farmers sons, q total population
OF, say $500 people. Now cut off the
fertilizer supply, take the best horses
and take out of that township $50 of
the best young men for the army.
Take out 100 men for war work of
one sort or another, take out so
women for munition factories, and
hospitals. Let this condition last for
three years. What are the crop pros
poets?
Before this var began the world
seemed to be having its hands full to
get along. It is now estimated that
go million people are busy with the
war, and though our agricultural ex-
ports for a dozen years have declined
sharply because our population has
| increased and the good land has not,
we are now called upon for a time to
feed the world as never before.
The Call to the Farmer
Verify this necessity is the most
extreme call that ever came to the
we must produce esvery possible edi-
BILE thing. Even ii the war should stop
now, which it cannot, We shall need
maximum production next year, for
the world has eaten its usual surplus
stocks OF food, Of which it ordinarily
carries several months supply.
when the war ends the people OF
Europe will need months Of rest. They
will need months to demobiliZe. They
won't dare fully demobilize anyhow,
and the amount Of undone work, thar
will face them is almost beyond be-
lief. There will be some years OF
feverish shipbuilding even in times OF
peace to get us ready to carry the
worlds normal commerce again.
There have been no repairs in
Europe for three years. Railroads are
unballasted; bridges are rusty; rails
are wearing out; cars are dilapidated;
plaster is falling off the houses;
plumbing is going to rack; farm wa
CONS have worn out; harness is re
duced to strings; people are barefoot
ed and half naked; and when the wa
does stop, all Germany is going TO
hunger and clamor for dish of Am
erican ham and bacon and skillets full!
Of lard for frying.
Hence Mr.. Hoover's urgent cry:
The food situation is one of the ut
most gravity, which, unless it is solved,
may possibly result in the collapse OF
everything we hold dear in civilization
This means that every man, wo-
man and child must forego at leas.
one loaf of wheat bread per week and
eat something else or less generously.
We must also Plant everything and
everywhere it will grow, or this time
next year the food problem will be
absolutely unsolvable and the world
| will face absolute starvation
Demands for Meat ,.-.
/ Look at the price Of pork and
world needs meat. Therefore, breed
every fertile beast, especially the
1 mare, the SOW and the. old hen-the
mare because hungry people in Europe
are eating horses today, and the roar
ling cannon have been eating them ever
since that early day in September,
1914, when one British officer count
ed 10000 dead horses on one small
/ section Of the battle line in northern
France.
1--WE shall need to export hundreds
/ Of thousands Of horses before we can
raise them, and in this year Of stress
! II you can choose between horses and
mules. by all means breed mules, be-
cause they can 60 to work sooner
than horses, and they eat less.
Breed the SOW, the most fecund Of
| all our four-footed farm beasts. She
bringeth forth quickly and many, and
they are soon good to eat. In Decem-
Der we may be glad to eat September
or October pigs If we cannot carry
them through the winter.
set the hens, persuade them to
steal their nests, for poultry is the
| quickest Of all meat. Even June and
July chickens are big enough to go
into the cold-storage plant with the be-
/ ginning Of winter, and they can pick
up most. Of their living catching
worms, insects and scattered grain
Probably they will be the cheapest
meat that is produced in America.
1--WE must plan. We should have
been at 1t long ago. Farming is mat.
ter of plan, and remember that next
year is quite sure to be as bad as this,
and maybe much worse. Start In to
get ready for it now.
| ITO supply more grain We may have
to feed less stock. That may require
reduction in the number Of animals.
II that is necessary, it should If pos
sible be beef cattle advanced in years.
Kill off q few of the old fellows, go
more to baby beef and to the moro
prolific hog.
'1n any event, beseech you this
year to get far, far away from that
complacent notion still held by some
/ that q mans farming is his own bust
ness only. II it were as easy to con.