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Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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a matter we must look to and are look-ing to with diligent care. And let me say that the stimulation of tlie agen-cies I have enumerated has been responded to by thefarmers in splendid fashion. I dare say that you areaware that the farmers of this country are as effi-cient as any other farmers in the world. They do notproduce more per acre than the farmers of Eu-rope. It is not necessary that they should do so.It would perhaps be bad economy for them to at-tempt it. But they do produce by two or three orfour times more per man, per unit of labor and cap-ital, than the farmers of any European country. Theyare more alert and use more labor saving devicesthan any other farmers in the world. And their re-sponse to the demands of the present emergencyhas been in every way remarkable. Last springtheir planting exceeded by 12,000,000 acres the larg-est planting of any previous year, and the yields fromthe crops were record-breaking yields. In the fall STATE PAPERS AND AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS 217
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u H 218 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK of 1917 a wheat acreage of 42,170,000 was plaoted,which was 1.000,000 larger than for any precedingyear, 3,000,000 greater than the next largest, and7,000,000 greater than the preceding five-year average. SHOULD EXCEED PAST ACHIEVEMENTS. But I ought to say to you that it is not onlynecessary that these achievements should be re-peated, but that they should be exceeded. I knowwhat this advice involves. It involves not only thelabor but sacrifice, the painstaking application ofevery bit of scientific knowledge and every testedpractice that is available. It means the utmosteconomy, even to the point where the pinch comes.It means the kind of concentration and self-sacrificewhich is involved in the field of battle itself, wherethe object always looms greater than the individual.And yet the Government will help and help in everyway that it is possible. The impression which pre-vails in some quarters that while the Governmenthas sought to fix the prices of foods

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