Show How Much Land for Each The recent census gives the total area of the Uflied tate not reckoning Alaska at 302560 square miles of which 50600 quare milea are occupied occu-pied by water lakpa rivers bays etc leaving 2 970 000 square miles of land or 900800000 acre This land even y divided would give to every mn woman and child 37J acre and u onion patch three by nine rods OVrr If we divide the population luto tamil es of six persona each family M 1210tteC1 l 227 acres Allowing one qvnitr of the land to be mountain > 1C1t3 eandy and atony tracts and bd iand tbefe would still be left the regultton quarter section sec-tion 160 Pre tr each family But tbe census fiiiu H < uov being made up for Junp 1880 Since then over 1000000 people from foreign lands have camp t > at Ay as I American citizens citi-zens and in natural increase from 1870 tj lESt wrt 3 per cent per an num So we have now March 1st 1882 nearly 54000000 inhabitants As the art4 of land does not expand there are le3 than 36 acres each or not 162 acres per family and the average amount is rapidly decreasing no cause for alarm however With tbe beet culture one acre wil 1 supply plenty of food for oue person and at thin rate we can allow more than 4000000 acred for waste land and still have tin Here left for the estimated esti-mated entire population of tbe globe whio his somewbat over 100000000 This is a great con try Thanks to the iron sinews of be 100000 miles of railroad line and the nerves of the network ot telegraph wires and the speaking tubas of the postal department de-partment we are ae a people brought iate one closely united family occupy lug Uncle 8ams great farm American Ameri-can Agriculturist for March |