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Show When the Luttr Will Catch the Grower. Assuming the population to bo now 65,000,000, with the area in cereals producing pro-ducing averapro crops and current consumption con-sumption 15 per cent, greater per capita than in the five years ending in 1874, present sttpplies are in excess of population popula-tion as follows: Corn for 5,500,000 people; wheat for 14,000,000; cattle for6,000,000, and swine for 11,000,000. Should population popu-lation continue to increase as heretofore, and should production not increase more than now seems probable, homo requirements require-ments will absorb all food products before be-fore the end of this century. C. Wood Davis in Forum. |