farmer kenneth littorecalls his father's warti efft.ing the outbreak of world war number one, there was a great drive put on to increase feed supplies and food supplies to feed not only our army and civilian population but populations in europe that had been overrun. and in so doing, he thought he was doing the patriotic right thing and bought another 900 acres. he felt he was just as patriotic and just as involved in that war as the man that was toting a rifle. schoumacher: even the end of the war did not end the growing demand for u.s. farm products for the threat of famine hung over a starving europe. responding to the call of herbert hoover, leader of the u.s. relief effort, the farmer raised his output even higher and fed two continents. never before had demand been so strong. never before had profits been so great. even the small farmer prospered. dr. wayne rasmussen, chief historian, u.s. department of agriculture comments. the marginal farmer also enjoyed this prosperity. before the war he might have been on the edge of going ou