| Show NEAR HEAR FOOD CRISIS it SAYS Us S EXPERT gain in food production not keeping pace with growth of population REMEDY IN OT NEW METHODS increase in acre ere yield solution of problem declares chief of uncle sams farm management Manao ement bureau tit alio llio L pitr Mm tige and tile tho wol neild id wide failure of crops of aliu year were largely firtl to bla blairr 1119 for tile high I rice 4 of if foods the united states Is id 1 homing it i crisis in fit food production outside sid of these nines in III ill 1 opt opinion 1 foil of one of glivic sums leading 1191 experts tills Is 19 tile conclusion of nl j 1 split spill mail calef of the hureau of farin inan in n 1 of tit the department of ture lie ho mild tin tile was ia better it t Is it 11 fur far try cry from the pounds of nilla of tile average cow CONVI to the pounds of duchess sky ski anric ormsby front tile alio BO 50 or CO eggs 0 of f the average Ainer fenti lim heir to alio of lud ludy Bg lontine lio lie said ti to illustrate tile possibilities blit ties of intensive product pio lon both of inputs allot vegetables I 1 during the last decade of the lust last century tile average of farin land lit in the united states rose per cent said mr spillman during tle the sumo saine ehno thero lliam was nil all aberago increase or of 07 per cent tit in tho alio price of farin p products id tims thus far in tile present both these i rates nils have been exceeded bcd food production Fi falling alling short it appears that we P have linvs arrived nt at it pailor Pir lod or tire io tit nt least rapidly up ill hing it when increase lit in tire pro pio of food in fit tills this country c no longer er keeps puce pace with increase lit in population tito area of our cicat crop for each of lit file last ten tea years dus ending with lah 1010 1015 tins lins been in fix millions of acres 17 45 17 40 GO 50 fil 51 and CO 60 respectively tito market marked I 1 increase lit in 1015 1915 luny be nt at tri tributes buted lit in the innon to tile lie luff 1119 effect of tile the hiigli prows incident to 11 r if we compare compi iro tho the average of the first two years of the period with thal thai of the lust last two preceding 1915 there ts Is tin n n increase Inc ieuse of 13 percent per cent for foi seven bevel years a rate slightly less than that of lit in population it must also be remembered that by b far tile lie greater iti portion of the lond land brought into culta licit during this period lies lit in the western wheat client producing area we cannot expect the present increase lit in it tile the area of new ne wheat lands landa to continue much longer white the production of wheat licht in 1015 allows that under tile the stimulus i of high prices american farm ers eis can still produce it big surplus of tills commodity there Is tilio nl o every reason or to believe that such li Is necessary necess nry at present we vu lino havo readied reached a stage where nn tiny great increase lit in wheat in fact where anin an nil in creaso proportional to increase lit in pup pop cabi cnn mccull only ly by decreasing tile he men area of other crops tills this menus hut hint unless we ve tire lire to havo bund bread still higher in III pi ice wo me must devise of f Iti creasIng tho the client bild alvid lild per acre corn yield stationary while le wheat Is our 0 ir most bread crop oni corn la Is it fin far moie 3 lanpop nut nat crap when hm considered in n its relation to our national eco econ oiny it 1 I early twice tho file acreage of f any nn other arpp has it total anine more than twice as great and IH 14 tire the prin pill busts basis of illean production alou in ill ta ali 1111 country tou the lle per capita artl tit of corn coin for tire lust last to four 1 tars T ore art ils 01 31 11 35 anti 28 bushels reze 1 akl 1 ly li tile total production for each of df ill the lust last ten tell teni i preceding 1015 his been lit in hundreds of millions of bushels bushel el 27 2920 20 20 27 28 29 io 0 25 31 21 and tit L 7 cheso figures lat licate no ito increase for the lart dut ur ll 11 population increased parr bit I 1 about 20 tier even the lie grep piedt crop c 0 or of liitt c r not included ln in the I 1 gu qs above tint that or of ce years tars callior carli or it Is evident that 0 wo o have ll 11 the polut point alicio lq lucrease lucre crease iise tn ill ill the pr ducolon of corn coin Is not licitly I 1 keeping paco pac 0 1 l increase in in 11 fact tile tho statistics indicate tiit it r ik quins the w ol of very ligh pric cilcus to biank baill about avell 11 finni ln enso ln 1 I the of tills tha ti our w important crop oli one rea reason on for or tills i 18 s Illif hit tl io 10 li st wl I 1 ero u VC the ninfa is nov low bell beng 1 I ai biou 0 light glit into cultivation are aie foutin 14 a not to t uio pi of corn coin tito iho acreage of corn s so allu lauge Q eliat illat any ally considerable increase in it enn can occur only nt at tile expense af q other important crops except t as add tonal innels annd I 1 brought into cultivation in tho corn producing states allot tills buist in the ho nato roof of tile tho case cac i I 1 ln JU is n slow process ess we must theft ro re lobat 06 very largely to in the nere yield for future in alil blits hilgh ly crop |
