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Domestic News
January 1, 1918
The Cordele Dispatch
Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia
What is this article about?
The US Department of Agriculture's war-emergency efforts are helping territories like Alaska, Porto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii increase local food production, reducing dependence on mainland supplies. Porto Rico now exports beans previously imported.
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SPREADING THE GOSPEL
What this country did in the growing of a tremendous food crop the past season, is now being done in its territories and those who have heretofore been drawing from the mainland the larger food supplies are being encouraged in their efforts to provide their own supplies.
Wonderful results have already been obtained by those who have taken it upon themselves to help the territories get started to growing their own food supplies. All this work helps. The people in Alaska and in Porto Rico have to have food supplies just as other people and as they learn to grow more and help to supply the needs, the lighter will be the burden when the whole task is summed up.
In Porto Rico, which formerly imported thousands of dollars worth of beans annually from the mainland, this product is now being exported.
Part of the war-emergency work of the Department of Agriculture has been to assist the territories to become less dependent upon the mainland of this country for their supply of food. The Alaska stations have greatly increased the areas sown to grain and are able to meet increased demands for seed grain. The Guam station is distributing large quantities of grain and plants for cultivation by the natives, and Hawaii has materially increased its production of food crops.
What this country did in the growing of a tremendous food crop the past season, is now being done in its territories and those who have heretofore been drawing from the mainland the larger food supplies are being encouraged in their efforts to provide their own supplies.
Wonderful results have already been obtained by those who have taken it upon themselves to help the territories get started to growing their own food supplies. All this work helps. The people in Alaska and in Porto Rico have to have food supplies just as other people and as they learn to grow more and help to supply the needs, the lighter will be the burden when the whole task is summed up.
In Porto Rico, which formerly imported thousands of dollars worth of beans annually from the mainland, this product is now being exported.
Part of the war-emergency work of the Department of Agriculture has been to assist the territories to become less dependent upon the mainland of this country for their supply of food. The Alaska stations have greatly increased the areas sown to grain and are able to meet increased demands for seed grain. The Guam station is distributing large quantities of grain and plants for cultivation by the natives, and Hawaii has materially increased its production of food crops.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Food Production
Us Territories
Agriculture Department
Porto Rico Exports
Alaska Grain
Guam Cultivation
Hawaii Crops
Where did it happen?
Us Territories (Alaska, Porto Rico, Guam, Hawaii)
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Us Territories (Alaska, Porto Rico, Guam, Hawaii)
Outcome
increased local food production in territories; porto rico now exports beans; alaska meets seed grain demands; guam distributes grains and plants; hawaii boosts food crops.
Event Details
Department of Agriculture assists territories in growing own food supplies as part of war-emergency work, encouraging self-sufficiency and reducing mainland imports.