SECTION II, 1916 [93] (RANS FRCSIC: 
An Historical War Crop—The Canadian Wheat Crop of 1915 
BYÉCACLAMES MEM GC ELD: 
Note.—The reader who desires to study more fully the question of the world’s 
production of wheat in the year 1915, is referred to a very comprehensive article 
in The Agricultural War Book, 1916, (Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa) pp. 153-176 
incl., ‘‘Wheat and the War,” by Mr. T. K. Doherty, Canadian Commissioner 
of the Imperial Institute of Agriculture. 
(Read May Meeting, 1916) 
This Great War is different from every other war; it is a contest 
not simply of men but of national resources. It involves the soldier 
in the trenches, the sailor on the high seas, the airman above the clouds, 
the miner underground, the artisan in the factory, and the farmer turn- 
ing the furrow or reaping the harvest. Women at the lathe and chil- 
dren in the gardens are in the reckoning. The chemist working early 
and late in his laboratory, and the grandmother untiringly knitting 
socks are sharing in the contest. It is, as never before, a struggle of 
the nations and all that these nations control. 
When the history comes to be written of “Canada and the Great 
“War,” account must be taken of farm production in 1915, which in this 
regard may well be called “The Year of Plenty.” Waging war in- 
volves more than men; munitions, equipment, food, and transpor- 
tation must all be reckoned. Without these latter men are of no avail; 
unsupported they are useless. The story that tells only of the weary 
trenches and the gallant attacks, heroic and thrilling though they may 
be, will be incomplete. The ample supply of cartridge and shell, and 
the daily ration of bread and jam, of beef and bacon, are absolute 
essentials. No more interesting chapter will be told than that of 
Britain’s munitions, and equally so will be that which recounts how 
several million men were fed, in fact, were well fed. In the history 
of the wars of other times, little or no attention has been paid to the 
question as to how the armies have been supplied with food, except in 
the case of besieged cities where hunger played a most important 
part. But this war is not like other wars. In every country involved 
the question of food supplies has played as important a part as the 
supplies of munitions. 
Immediately on the outbreak of the War a Food Commission was 
formed in Germany composed of sixteen experts under the Chair- 
manship of Doctor Paul Eltzbacher, Rector of the Commercial College 
