. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . cent, of asuccess, and with our reserve stock only40 per cent, of the average, how can wehope to aid the French Minister ofAgriculture, who recently stated that hisnation would need 360,000,000 bushels ofwheat to carry it through this year? Our corn supply is 22 per cent, belownormal, while our oat supply is off 35per cent. As for potatoes we havealmost no supply at all, as last yearsproduction was only 53 per cent, ofaverage. Nature, during the period of the war,has been most niggardly, as the UnitedStates production figures (see table) show: With 16,
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . cent, of asuccess, and with our reserve stock only40 per cent, of the average, how can wehope to aid the French Minister ofAgriculture, who recently stated that hisnation would need 360,000,000 bushels ofwheat to carry it through this year? Our corn supply is 22 per cent, belownormal, while our oat supply is off 35per cent. As for potatoes we havealmost no supply at all, as last yearsproduction was only 53 per cent, ofaverage. Nature, during the period of the war,has been most niggardly, as the UnitedStates production figures (see table) show: With 16,000,000 men in the trenches ■ Per Blshels Per Capita Yield Bushels Cent. for Home Decrease Consumption. 1915 1916 1915 1916 Wheat 1,025,801,000 639,886,000 Corn 2,994,773,000 2,583,241,000 Oats 1,549,030,000 1,251,992,000 Rye 54,050,000 47,383,000 .47 .12 Barley 228,851,000 180,927,000 Potatoes 359,721,000 285,437,0 0 Total 6,212,226,000 4,988,866,000 33. and 48,000,000 more devoting all theirenergies to keep the fighters suppliedwith equipment, and with general un-favorable weather conditions, the pro-ductive power of the world has beenmaterially decreased. It is no wonderthen that food prices are reaching newhigh levels almost daily, and that onedollar will now buy only a peck ofpotatoes as compared with a bushel forforty-three cents in the spring of 1915. However, these conditions are notsurprising to one who has made a closestudy of the cost of living. Other warshave affected the general price level invery much the same way and to evengreater extents. Tables, computed forthe United States Government by P. Falkner, show that the priceof food increased during the MexicanWar period. During and following theCrimean War, which scarcely caused aripple on this side of the Atlantic, theprices of food increased 14% in 1853,20< r in 1854, 25% in 1855 and 56, and30% in 1857 above those of
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