Show our boundless wealth the stilting figures in the preliminary estimates of tho department of agriculture are those showing 80 of the total area of the united states is available for agriculture or fruit growing the foundation of national prosperity saaz sa a tha the louisville courier journal is the fertility of soil A country with 80 per cent of fertility is supplied with the best of national resources in some countries for example japan the figures made by the department of agriculture are reversed only about 20 per cent of japans total area is aal callable lable for agriculture tho fact that for every hundred acres in cultivation in the united states there arc are acres awaiting awaiting the hoe shows that we may look forward to becoming four times as rich as we are and if america is not the first of nations in diplomacy or fighting strength she is a plutocrat with 27 per cent of her greatest natural resources now returning a profit As the country fills up with population the back to atie farm problem will bo be solved without any propaganda contends the courier journal in densely crowded countries little arable lond lies idle save that which is reserved by a landowning land owning aristocracy or otherwise kept out of the market for farms when america is years older she will be at least per cent wealthier than she is today and the full development of her agricultural resources will not then have been reached |