Your Farm Is a 
Force for Victory 
Important Decisions 
up to You Today 
Like everybody else you are busy 
these days. Maybe you’ve been too 
busy to give much thought to your 
situation in this war. But the men 
who have the job of winning the 
war—and arranging the peace— 
haven’t been overlooking your pos- 
sibilities. Right now they are con- 
sidering you pretty seriously. It is 
wholly possible that in the months 
ahead, your grain will be more im- 
portant than guns. 
Roger W. Babson, the world- 
famous financial expert, says in a 
copyrighted article, “In fact, the 

A real pleasure to cut such upstanding 
wheat—Hoffman “‘Leap’s Prolific.” 
ultimate outcome of the war and 
the terms of its peace may center 
more around our farm commodities 
than around munitions.” Why is 
this suddenly so? Because a large 
part of the world which once fed it- 
self may not be able to do so this 
year. Because products we were ac- 
customed to import for industrial 
needs just aren’t available any 
more. To win this war some of 
your products will be doing those 
jobs! 
Take that 700 million bushels of 
stored wheat you’ve been hearing 
about. That looks huge. But may- 
be it won’t be so big if we have to 
keep our ally Russia by supplying 
food next winter. Or, when we have 
to feed the people of any countries 
our soldiers take back. Maybe that 
surplus won’t be so big either, if 
much of it becomes the source of 
our auto and tractor tires, or in- 
dustrial alcohol. 
No one knows, too, when peace is 
coming. But when the nations sit 
down around the table, the fellow 
with that wheat ready to deliver 
will have a powerful voice! 
What does all this mean to you? 
Well, for one thing, what you decide 
about next year’s products right 
now is mighty important! You may 
have to work harder with less help 
—which is a price all of us are 
paying today for Victory. 
But—whether you look at it from 
the standpoint of its effect on war 
and peace, or whether you consider 
the better prices your crops will 
bring—it is going to pay you to 
make the right decisions, it’s going 
to pay you to put out that harder 
effort. 
Read the news that’s affecting us 
farmers right now and see if you 
don’t agree. 
