Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — SOUTH TO DO ITS PART IN RAISING MORE FOOD [ARTICLE]

SOUTH TO DO ITS PART IN RAISING MORE FOOD

Dallas, Tex. Southwestern farmers are bending every energy to plant food and feed crops. Spurred on by better prices than ever known to prevail in the Southwest for foodstuffs and warned by the government that unless extraordinary efforts are made by the farmers this season the country will face a serious food shortage, the farmers are planting a great deal of land to those crops which will help feed the nation. In the northern part of the great Southwest. Where winter wheat was'killed by an unfavorable winter, some farmers have planted spring wheat.