Present and Suggested Sources 



upset the interchange of commodities with 

 foreign countries ; that we must import food 

 in order to keep our factories busy. Was 

 ever a fallacy more apparent ? The 

 ;^ 1 00,000,000 worth of food if produced at 

 home would still be paid for by the products 

 of our factories and our whole home market 

 would orain on the transaction. But most 

 people will agree that it would be desirable 

 if possible to produce at home the bulk of 

 food now imported. The question is of such 

 importance that it is worthy of the closest 

 study. Yet, curiously enough, this problem 

 has never received really serious attention. 

 The Commission appointed some years ago 

 to consider our food supply in time of war, 

 considered many ways of guaranteeing our 

 food supply. The building of great granaries 

 was suggested — and it might be advisable 

 to develop to a certain extent a system of 

 granaries — but the primary and obvious 

 question, " Could our land produce enough 

 wheat to make us more or less independent 

 of a sea-borne supply ? " was never discussed 

 at all. 



We are now paying the penalty for neglect- 

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