The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29

John Jones is a farmer. Another John Jones lives in town. Each typifies the two general divisions of our people agricultural producers and consumers. The war has brought many new things into the lives of each of these John Joneses. It has brought an agricultural problem, the significance of which per haps neither of them has realized.
 We will assume that each John Jones has bought liberty bonds that insupera- ble circumstances prevent him from rendering military service; that he is eager to throw some strength to the sum total of freedoms forces, and to help destroy the militarism that has blighted the world-the scientific, sys- tematized, cardindexed militarism, perfected by efficiency experts in frightfulness-the militarism to which, in the name of kutur, the Prussian autocrat has prostituted every science, every product of genius that properly applied would have made the world happier instead of hideous.
 Then desiring to do this, what is John Jones' job?
 As far as farmer John Jones is con- cerned, this, in a nutshell, is the job Uncle Sam hands to him: To farm bet ter now than he has ever farmed be- fore. That will mean different details in different sections of the country. It means, necessarily, maintenance of the systems of crop rotations and diversification, and of good farming generally that have proved profitable in any given part of the land. It means no violent disturbance of crop rela- tions. no revolutionary changes of ag- ricultural methods. It means for John Jones to continue to follow the usual good farming practices that experience has shown to be successful in his sec- tion--but to apply those practices and methods more earnestly, more careful ly and more effectively than he ever has before. Simply to be a better farmer.
 It means more work. But it will help win the war. John Jones must put in just as large an acreage on nonperish- able foodstuffs and feedstuffs as sound farm practice in his section will per- init. He must raise all the meat anil mals, cattle, hogs and sheep, that his farm will support, and utilize to the utmost, waste roughage, such as grain, straw and corn stalks. for live stock feed. Each farm has it's own particular problems to be taken into considera- tion, but the general task for each and all Is to produce next year the maxi iHuH or Iood and meat that will re- suit from the very best methods and the very hardest work on that farm
 John Jones will be good farmer -the best farmer he has ever been not only because ambition and thrift and personal profit prompt him to be, not only because it will mean better house to live in. more comforts for his wife more advantages and op- portunities for his children, but be. cause he realizes that Uncle Sam has looked him in the eye and said: John Jones' I need all the food and meat that farm of yours will produce with the very best kind of management You'll get good prices. I'll see to that. But the main point is, I must have that food to win this war. John Jones, I'm talking to you-your country calls on you to be better farmer than you have ever been before!.
 And John Jones will do it! Wheth- CT his farm produces Maine potatoes or Texas rice, North Dakota wheat or Florida truck, Oregon apples or Geor- eia yellow yams. the answer will be the same.
 And now, back to John Jones of the city. Where does he come in on the agricultural production programme? What can he do? What is his inter- est?
 City John Jones' job is to conserve the food that Farmer John Jones pro- duces: to stop waste and thereby add
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