Not until the 1918 crop, if then, can any success be attained.

And between then and now lies a long road, a road of suffering for England, and for all countries dependent upon imports for their food supply.
"Everything points to the likelihood that the universal failure of the harvest in 1916 will be followed by a like universal failure in 1917.
In the United States the official reports of acreage under crops are worse than ever, showing 63.4, against 78.3 the previous year.

The winter wheat is estimated at only 430 million bushels, as against 492 million bushels for the previous year and 650 million bushels for 1915.
"The prospects, then, for the next year's harvest are poor indeed, and offer no hope of salvation to our enemies.
"As to our own outlook, this is well known to those present: short, but safe--for we can manage by ourselves.

And to-day we can say that the war of starvation, that crime against humanity, has turned against those who commenced it.

We hold the enemy in an iron grip.