Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-01-25
THIS WAY1 TO VICTORY!

News dispatches convey the information that England
has been placed ration basis. From the
learn that he food situation Of the Allies is most critical
Official statistics of crop inventories in England France and
Italy given support of these unfortunate facts Here at
home meas wheatess and sweees days follow each other
while variety of food grows less food control grows
and the day of general prvaton apparently grows
We have long insisted that raons rather than munitions
must this fight On all sides hear the acclaim that
the American farmer must the day. More food crops
the cry and without them victory long off, If not i'm
possible Yet there fewer farmers the country than when
entered the The ntona army filled with conscrip
has woefully reduced our national farm man-pOwer.
We told that the farm must become motorized that
the farm horse must become horse and the tractor take
his former place front of pillow and harvester The hOreess
farm already here but long way from being the
farm ...
1T impossible that increased crops demanded and
dispensbe to shall from increased
Increased yields per offer the only possible solution to the
problem How? By better arming-by the making of two
blades of grass grow where but grew before Better prepa
ration better seed better cultivation better harvesting but
and most particularly better ferizing indispensable
to full is to this latter part of the program that
We are fighting Germans The most signal and effective
victories in history have been by turning their wea
Allies She counted heavily her average yield of 81 bush
els of wheat against IA and the 20 bushels OF
zers per in the world Her yields and her confidence
were based this fact and its results
More and better fertilzing Of will do more to win
battles than any other thing the American army jeans
can do for that other America army in khaki.
We not discussing systems theory practice OF
farming We face face with the revOutOnzng facts
of war do not forget the value Of Importance ultimate
necessity of livestock legumes better cultural
Methods What aim at however, is not the permanent i'm
provement of agriculture but immediate results Larger
yields of food for the 1918 is the issue All other
considerations of secondary Importance Kind Of fertilizer
composition method and qunty Of application mere Incl
dents. =.
Accepting of these facts and conclusions
three other facts of the utmot practical importance First
Fertilizer stocks of all kinds unprecedenedy low Potash
out of reckoning Ntrate such demand for munon
making to be in very limited supply The war has even
greatly curtaed the production of acid phosphate The in
eytable result will that fertilizer manufacturers will not be
able to supply the increased demand There will not be
fertilizers enough to go around Get yours. Second The
whole transportation system Of the country is so dsorganzed
and congested by traffic that control
not possibly insure quick deliveries Third: Full caroards-
the maximum load of forty tonsw take precedence over
smaller shipments
Orders will be filled in the order receved-rs come,
first served Large shipments will faster than small
=, -.
Business sense and patriotic duty both urge that fertz
ers be ordered and that individual orders be united for
large shipments All crops profitable. More crops
mean more profit-and VICTORY-SOutkern Ruralist.