Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1917 — Preparedness in Crop Acreage. [ARTICLE]

Preparedness in Crop Acreage.

Uncertainties and misgivings over The question of seed supplies in planting fid 1 crops are in many instances changr/g to positive alarm. • The shortage in seed potatoes, in beans and on 'on seeds noted in the Orange -Tudd annual review printed Jam. 27, have become aggravated. The sensational advances in food prices in the late weeks of the winter stimulated fanners and truckers to sell down their crops often to the danger line. In preservative quarters grave fears are expressed that all of this jnay serve to restrict what should be a generous 1917 acreage under field crops as a whole. We are getting practically no field or garden seeds from abroad this year, even with prices in this country at what would normally be a very attractive level. Market gardeners as well as allaround farmers, are also obliged to -meet- a scarcity of labor, -even -at high prices, and heavy outlayß.fw oumtriercial fertilizers. If advice is ever safe -in-appfdach.ifng 1 crop acreage it is this spring: and it as fair to presume that every field acre and every garden patch ought to be made to yield generously at the next harvest.