November 9, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



471 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page 469) 

 There are too many pompons on the 

 market. Carnations have improved 

 and are selling well at the new prices. 



ANOTHER LIBERTY LOAN COMING 



Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo 

 has announced that, no matter what 

 the results of the pending overtures 

 for peace may be, there will be an- 

 other Liberty loan. To use his ex- 

 pression, "We are going to have to 

 finance peace for a while just as we 

 have had to finance war." 



There are over 2,000,000 United 

 States soldiers abroad. If we trans- 

 port these men back to the United 

 States at the rate of 300,000 a month, 

 it will be over half a year before 

 they are all returned. Our Army 

 therefore, must be maintained, vic- 

 tualed, and clothed for many months 

 after peace is an actuality. 



The American people, therefore, hav- 

 ing supported the Liberty loan with 

 a patriotism that future historians 

 will love to extol, will have an oppor- 

 tunity to show the same patriotism in 

 financing the just and conclusive vic- 

 torious peace whenever it comes. 



Not for a moment, however, is the 

 Treasury acting on any assumption 

 that peace is to come soon. Until 

 peace is actually assured the attitude 

 of the Treasury and the attitude of 

 the whole United States Government 

 is for the most vigorous prosecution of 

 the war, and the motto of force against 

 Germany without stint or limit will be 

 acted up to until peace is an absolute 

 accomplished fact. 



One more Liberty loan, at least, is 

 certain. The Fourth loan was popu- 

 larly called the "Fighting Loan"; the 

 next loan may be a fighting loan, too, 

 or it may be a peace loan. Whatever 

 the conditions, the loan must be pre- 

 pared for and its success rendered cer- 

 tain and absolute. Begin now to pre- 

 pare to support it. 



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CEREAL CROPS AND FOOD FACTS. 



The U. S. Food Administration, 

 Washington, D. C, has sent out the 

 following memorandum: 



The need for food conservation and 

 the elimination of all waste by the 

 American people was never so great 

 as at the present time. 



Last year the Food Administration's 

 requests were very largely for the 

 substitution of one food for another. 

 This year actual saying is required on 

 all foods. Before the war, with nor- 

 mal reserves and normal conditions 

 prevailing, with plenty of agricultural 

 labor, our exports to the allied coun- 

 tries averaged 5,533,000 tons of food 

 per year. Last year, we were able to 

 export to them 11,820,0,00 tons, and 

 this year we have assumed the bur- 

 den of sending them a minimum, of 

 17,550,000 tons. 



Unfortunately, the common belief 

 throughout the country seems to be 

 that the 1918 crop was a phenomenally 

 large one, and that in consequence 

 there exists in this country a great 

 plentitude of food, and the time for 

 saving has therefore been passed. This 

 rather universal belief can be under- 

 stood when it is remembered that last 

 year, wheat received the greatest em- 

 phasis in the pleas for food saving, so 

 that quite naturally public attention 

 generally centered around the condi- 

 tion of the then forthcoming wheat 

 crop. 



When the harvest time was reached 



and the crop assured, showing an in- 

 crease of more than 250,000,000 

 bushels, conditions of other crops indi- 

 cated that they also would show phe- 

 nomenal increases. Then followed ad- 

 verse weather conditions that cut 

 down production in other crops, but 

 the opinion accepted at that time by 

 the country at large, that plentitude 

 was to prevail has not been changed. 

 Actual production conditions, as 

 shown by the figures of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for October 1, 

 show that the 1918 crop as compared 

 with that of 1917 is as follows: 



INCREASE 



Bushels 



Wlie.1t 2(!s.000.0<)0 



Barley 27,000,000 



Rice 5.000,000 



Rye 17,0)Xi,000 



Buckwheat 2,000,000 



Beans 3,000,000 



.■!22,000,000 

 DECREASE 



liushels 



Corn 442,000,000 



Oats 52.000,000 



Potatoes 52.000,000 



Sweet Potatoes 2,000,000 



548,000,000 

 The apparent loss, however, is coun- 

 ter-balanced by the fact that the nu- 

 tritional value of the com this year 

 will be very much higher than that of 

 last, and there will be less spoilage. 

 Also a portion of last year's crop, in 

 the form largely of an increased num- 

 ber of hogs remaining on the farms 

 adds to our resources. It seems fair, 

 therefore, to assume that our actual 

 food resources in life-sustaining value, 

 are about the same as those of last 

 year. 



