. The Saturday evening post. g to it. And to prove it afresh,there is this years crop. But I am keeping you from Mr. Meredith. I want himto tell you about our store of plenty. It may reconcile youto the belief that this is not such a dashed bad sort of worldafter all. Mr. Meredith is properly concerned that thefarmer should get an adequate price for the food he hasgrown for us. That is a part of his job. What he has to sayhere is particularly addressed to the consumer; to citydwellers and business men. His message was given me thesecond week of October. Here it is: Through two great crises, on
. The Saturday evening post. g to it. And to prove it afresh,there is this years crop. But I am keeping you from Mr. Meredith. I want himto tell you about our store of plenty. It may reconcile youto the belief that this is not such a dashed bad sort of worldafter all. Mr. Meredith is properly concerned that thefarmer should get an adequate price for the food he hasgrown for us. That is a part of his job. What he has to sayhere is particularly addressed to the consumer; to citydwellers and business men. His message was given me thesecond week of October. Here it is: Through two great crises, one brought about by theWorld War and the other by the unsettled conditions fol-lowing its conclusion, the American farmers have donetheir part. In 1917, encouraged and assisted by the De-partment of Agriculture and its cooperating agencies, they produced, in the face ofvolume of food cropsoptimistic had thoughtthe principal crops was tremendous difficulties, agreater than the mostpossible. The acreage inincreased that year by. 22,000,000 acres, and in 1918, in spite of a stillgreater shortage of labor and machinery andfertilizer, the farmer planted 5,600,000 acresmore than in 1917, supplying the allied armies the sus-tenance without which the war would have been lost. The aggregate yield of the leading cereals in each ofthese years exceeded that of any preceding year in thenations history except 1915. In 1919 the farmers plantedan acreage in the leading cereals greater by 33,000,000than the prewar annual average—1910-14—and they alsogreatly increased the number of practically all classes oflivestock, as they did during the two war years. In the spring of 1920 the farmers had before them theproblem of shaping their operations for the coming were confronted by many serious and disturbingobstacles. Conditions generally were unsettled; with ashortage of farm labor estimated at thirty-three per cent,due largely to more attractive wages paid in industry,there was unpre
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