Show Resources of Nature Offer For Un Unlimited ted Production i u UnIted States By WHEELER McMILLEN ULLEN Mi Mr McMullen spes s p es dent ol of the Nat on OD onal onal al Farm Form t I c Count I 1 wh wb ch cb has bas as ast asis t is ob eb teve the advancement of 01 the t al at u e ol of Amer can farm larm p through app ei ed sc ac ence nce He upla os as below blow some of 01 tb the p nc DC pies of 01 gy ET in ia re at OD oa onto to the future of 01 the Us Un ted States StOles There is S a single fact tact in sCIence that has far reaching significance for the ilie future of the United States I 1 refer to the fac fact that of the entire on of nearly every plant growth whether it be a pumpkin an anear anear ear of corn or a walnut alnut tree rough roughly roughly ly 98 per cent of the substance IS manufactured by nature from at atmosphere atmosphere and moisture Only about 2 per cent on the ilie average is actu actually actually ally extracted from the soil In oth othor or er words the resources we say are derived from the soil are actually de derived derived rived by the miraculous action of sunshine from the atmosphere and zoo mo sture stare Within the borders of the United States may be found nearly every I Ikno kno on of the attributes ot of plant growth of growth of temperature of so soil characteristics of rainfall ramfall and humidIty of alt tude and length or IntensIty of sunlight We have a r and ram rain and ne avaIlable in m table and m in inexhaustible exhaustible quant ties The significance of this fact IS that there need be absolutely no up upper upper per limit to the potential ton of the ilie Un led ted States except the limit imposed by b human Ignorance of how to take full advantage of the laws superabundant of nature These dant t es for tor the ilie product on ot of raw materials from air mOIsture sunshine and soil are unlike those of mineral production Conceivably the stores of wealth nature had deposited underground may in m some distant century become exhausted or become too ble for economical use Plant growth on the other hand is renewable usually usually usually ally annually with each cycle from seed to harvest e e Within the eth century two Important new tools have been de developed developed developed for the utilization of our plant raw materials The art of the organic chemIst chemist a eth century art has added enormous importance to plant sub substances substances substances stances as industrial raw materials WIth this art crops need no longer be regarded merely as sources of food clothing and shelter The chemIcal industries take the crops for their cellulose proteins starches sugars and oils and convert these compounds into innumerable super for lor products for every day use Alongside the organic chemist is the plan plane geneticist with his art of ng plants for c pur purpose purposes purposes poses pose He has made it possible for forthe forthe forthe the fist time to grow crops to in D industrial ons ens as is actually being done with cotton soybeans and other plants |