Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Foodstuffs Instead of Cotton. [ARTICLE]

Foodstuffs Instead of Cotton.

Planters in the fertile Laguna district near Torreon, Mexico, are substituting war crops for cotton this year. Having learned that the demand for corn/ wheat and other staple foodstuffs would be heavy and prices correspondingly high, the Mexican hacienda owners have plowed up their cotton lands in this famous cot-ton-growing district of central Mexico and have planted food crops.