Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — Meet at Capital Today to Discuss Larger Acreage. [ARTICLE]

Meet at Capital Today to Discuss Larger Acreage.

To feed an army in the field, provide food and sustenance for the population remaining athome to do the civilian’s part in a war, and to spare of the overplus something for the hungry mouths of those across the sea who will be our allies in case the United States picks up the gauge of battle thrown down by Germany, will require tin Indiana, if the state does her part, more intensified famming and a larger acreage of crops than the state has ever (before produced. And to .the end that there may bea concerted action and a stimulus to "the production of food in the state, Governor Goodrich has requested that there be a meeting of those particularly interested in grain and live stock production and theedistribution thereof at the state house today. A hurryup call was sent out yesterday for the conference, accompanied by the following statement of the exigency by Gov. Goodrich: “In the face of the greatest shortage in the food, supply this country has. ever known, we are preparing to enter the European conflict. Indiana will supply her quota of men. She must prepare to furnish more than her quota of food. An adequate food supply is the first essential to the support of an army in the field, and the civil population at home. It is necessary to mobilize the agriculture of Indiana that we may plaint a larger acreage, grow larger crops, prevent wastage.”