Download or read book Effects of the Great War Upon Agriculture in the United States and Great Britain (Classic Reprint) written by Benjamin Horace Hibbard and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Effects of the Great War Upon Agriculture in the United States and Great Britain Of course, the difficulty was seen early by the countries at war and measures were taken not only to increase their own pro duction, but to reduce consumption as far as possible. Before we entered the war we had become, in a large degree, the source of the world's food supply. On our entry the duty of feeding the world lay upon us still more heavily, for we had not only to care for our people at home, but for our soldiers abroad, and supply a large part of the food of our allies. Here, as in Great Britain, the measures were of two kinds, the stimulation of production and conservation in consumption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.