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Show American and German Efficiency j The searchlight of war has brought out many interesting facts., and one of these is that the vaunted German efficiency will not always stand the test of comparison with American efficiency. The Germans boasted of being the greatest farmers on earth. Investl-j gation shows that in efficiency in agriculture, ag-riculture, measured by the produce' per acre, America being graded 100,' Belgium leads the world, at 205;' Great Britain comes second, at 164;' and Germany third, at 155; America ; comes fourth. But the better test is the man test rather than the acre test, and here America leads the world by over 2 to 1. Again, grading America at 100 per farm worker, Great Britain pro- 1i,iiM, AO A f j i mi duces 43 and Germany 41. The American farmer cultivates 27 acres, the German farmer but 7. With the aid of vast quantities of fertilizer the German produces more per acre, but he produces at a much greater cost per bustel and he produces much less than half as much per man. |