28 BULLETIN 728, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



YOU WILL REALIZE, as I think statesmen on both sides 

 of the water realize, that the culminating crisis of the 

 struggle has come and that the achievements of this year on the 

 one side or the other must determine the issue. It has turned 

 out that the forces that fight for freedom, the freedom of man, 

 all over the world as well as our own, depend upon us in an 

 extraordinary and unexpected degree for sustenance, for the 

 supply of the materials by which men are to live and to fight, 

 and it will be our glory when the war is over that we have 

 supplied those materials and supplied them abundantly, and it 

 will be all the more glory because in supplying them we have 

 made our supreme effort and sacrifice. — From President 

 Wilson's Message to the Farmers' Conference at Urbana, III., 

 January 31, 1918. 



