The Independent . isoners. Food Shortage The ?*?** <«*Pafen. _, . ,& is already making ain England gerious reduction in the English food supply. For manyyears before the war agriculture inGreat Britain had been on the declineand the country was becoming increas-ingly dependent on land went out of cultivationand was turned into game preservesand lawns. This year the Governmenturged the utilization of all waste andpleasure grounds for growing crops,but this plan could not be fully car-ried out because of the lack of thousand farm laborers whowere serving in t
The Independent . isoners. Food Shortage The ?*?** <«*Pafen. _, . ,& is already making ain England gerious reduction in the English food supply. For manyyears before the war agriculture inGreat Britain had been on the declineand the country was becoming increas-ingly dependent on land went out of cultivationand was turned into game preservesand lawns. This year the Governmenturged the utilization of all waste andpleasure grounds for growing crops,but this plan could not be fully car-ried out because of the lack of thousand farm laborers whowere serving in the trenches werebrought back, but now the militaryauthorities have called for 500,000more men to fill up the gaps in Franceand this will further reduce the yieldof crops. In the period between Juneand the August harvest there is ordi-narily only about food enough to lastsix and a half weeks on hand. Now ofcourse the stock is much less thanusual and importation is Germans calculated that if they.
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