Show RIGHT cultivation NEEDED alarmists tell us that in time the population lation of this world will be so grea great that there wit not be food enough to sustain it that day even if it should come is so far in the distance that the prediction does not worry people on the other hand there are optimists f who assure us that the food supply will always be abundant probably the truth li lies f es between the two statements if imperfect methods of cultivation an aro followed so that the soil is worn ou it will not take long to get face to face with starvation sone some ancient countries have beon ruined by such methods and today in our own land there are large tracts of worn out soil made so by bud bad farming 11 but where good farming is followed the soil retains and even increases its fertility in england centuries of bad farming so impoverished ed the soil that years ago the yield of wheat was but eight bushels to the acre improved farming has now brought the atsu up to 32 bushels to the acre here in our land better cultivation the irrigation of the semiarid semi arid soils of the west and the draining of swamp lands north and south will result in such an increased productivity of the land that the fear of food shortage will cease dease and the farmers and stock raisers will receive greater returns for their lanor |