Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1916 — INCREASE THE FARM YIELDS [ARTICLE]

INCREASE THE FARM YIELDS

The agriculturists of the United States should use the utmost energy and employ every possible agency to produce maximum crops during the year 1917. Their success in doing this will not only be profitable to themselves, but prove of the greatest advantage to the nation in many ways and to every inhabitant of the nation. The demand for agricultural products by foreign countries will be both urgent and enormous. The home demand will exceed that ever before known. The price that the .agriculturist will be able to command for his productions will be such as to realize him great profits, so that every condition urges him to increase production, and the wortdwaits eagerly for the immense crops of 1917 which its people depend upon so absolutely. Every acre of land that will produce should be placed in cultivation, and if every acre that can or will be placed under cultivation yielded normal crops there would still be a demand for those yields, so bare are the storehouses of the world, so close is the demand to yield of the soil.

The agricultural boards, commissions and associations of the various states of the Union should in every possible way impress the farmers with the advantages which conditions now afford them and with the opportunities available to them of securing profits for results of their intelligent efforts in producing large crops. Team work by these various boards, commissions and associations—national, state, county and district—can add millions of dollars to the receipts of the farmers of the United States during the coming twelve months, and thus well justify their existence as aids and auxiliaries of the agriculturists. Every manufacturer, merchant, ehopkeeper and salesman should urge the farmers to supreme efforts in the production of crops, as the prosperity of the farmer means prosperif to them, as well as to every other material interest in this country. Let 1917 be made a record-breaking year for business

throughout the United States. Great crops from our lands will insure such a record.