The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-06-05
Our Food Supply
Contributed EditoriaI.)

warning may have an idea that food prices
be reduced be we'll to state that various estimates
point to serious shortage in food supply. One jour-
nal says there will be shortage Of
products Another estimate places the shortage Of wheat
bushels compared to the average yield Rich
ard r. Edmonds editor Of the Manufacturers Record Ba
timore), says:
The decreasing food supply very alarming situation
It endangers government itself The most serious
League Of Nations Or deoorao or republican supremacy
lis the salvation of agricultural interests and the
production Of an adequate food supply.
be decreased acreage Of most crops for the
year 1920 in Montana doubts Crops dried out hailed
and burnt for the past four five years about
hausted the Of great number Of farmers in this state
They have money lef and their ambition is crushed.
The farmer till giving up despair
Dairy being driven to the shabes The hypocrisy
and nsncery Of the Investigators lead to
where. MIR. H. w. coIngwood, editor Of "The Rural New
Yorker, wonders show the city paper it.
self with discussing the ordinary topics Of the day when this
calamity slowly but surely approaching Few farmers made
wheat last Fewer animals being bred for
meat production.
Food prices not decline under such circumstances
cept by manipulation, and then only very short period
Mr. Chester c. Davis editor Of the ontana Farmer Boze
man) adds warnng and "I farm prices should fall
without corresponding general decline, then productions
the farms will fall to the famine pont Farmers have about
reached the point where they sick and tired of producing
foodstuffs for the profiteers to juggle with.
There people in America who fools enough be
shouting that must feed the starving nations of Europe,
while everything points to the fact that will have hardy
time to feed ourselves and that prices will be Of sight, with
transportation serious problem.
Anybody easily figure how canned fruits Of all kinds
will be higher account of the price Of Farm labor is
being attracted to the big cities and manufacturing ceners,
thus increasing the number food and decreasing
the food producers Farmers have been getting worst Of it,
and they beginning to realize this TRUTH in spite Of all
the bosh handed out to them by mining editors.
The prices of farm machinery have been advanced by the
that prohibits the food producer from
tending his under cultivation Farm equipments of all
kinds advanced till the farmer unable and is
quitting.
Banks stopping their loans to farmers because there is
immediate prospect that all encouraging in the nan
ca world This very part of the problem now fac
ing the farmer. Fraud and manipulation of all kinds in food
products enriched few and wrecked good many No
doubts the high prices of the necessities of life the
Cornell University estimated that there than a.
900 ababe armouses vacant in New York stae owing tc
that and boys abandoning farm life for city
Automobile factories of the middle have absorbed
great numbers Of abIeboded young from the country
pIaces. Rich ride around in costly automobiles calm,
obvous of the approaching crisis. The lurking of t
food shortage has been limited but few editors have sound
warming This another evidence of the collapse of the
capitalist syste and the strongest kind of evidence tina
social will