The Dickinson press., 1898-11-05

q cents. An druggists. S
Prepared by {. I. Hood q Co., Lowell, Mas
The only Pin 70 take with Hoods S~arsaparilla,
Sir William Crookes then sums a,
and gives the world until 1881 to fec
the acute pinch. He says:
"Should all the wheat growing coun.
tries add to their area to the utmost
capacity, on the most careful calcula.
tion the yield would give us only an
addition Of some 100, 900, 900 acres,
supplying, at the average world yield
OF 1871 bushels to the aore, l,27O, 600,
600 bushels, just enough to supply the
increase Of population among bread eat
ers till the year 1881. At the present
time there exists a deficit in the: wheat
area of $1,000 square miles-a deficit
masked by the fact that the ten world
crops Of wheat harvested In the ten
years ending 1896 were more than 8
per cent above the average Of the pre-.
vious 90 years When provision shall
have been made, if possible, to feed
a8o, 600. 600 units likely to be added to
the bread eating populations by 1881
by the complete occupancy Of the arabic
areas Of the temperate zone now partial.
" occupied-where can be grown the
additional $50, 600. 900 bushels of wheat
required ten years later by a hungry
world?"
Then, before bringing the fairy god
mother of chemistry out of the labora.
tory. he notes the important value of
wheat as a food in the following words:
"H bread fails-not only us, but. all
the bread eaters of the world-what are
we to do? We are born wheat Caters,
Other races, vastly superior to us in
numbers, but differing widely in ma
terial and intellectual progress, are eat
ers OF Indian corn, rice, millet and 9TH
e. grains, but none of these grains has
the food value, the concentrated health
sustaining power Of, wheat, and it Ia
on this account that the accumulated
experience Of civilized mankind has set
wheat apart as the fit and proper food
for the development Of muscle and
brains"
Then comes one more argument,
showing that the price Of wheat tends
to increase:
"Cheap production Of wheat depends
on a variety Of causes, varying greatly
in different countries. Taking the cost
of producing q given quantity Of wheat
in the United Kingdom at 100 shillings,
the cost for the same amount in the
United States is 81 shillings, in India
SO shillings and in Russia 81 shillinga.
We require cheap labor, fertile soil, easy
transportation to market, low taxation
and rent and no export or import du-
ties. Labor will rise in price and fertil-
ity diminish as the requisite manurial
constituents in the virgin soil become
exhausted. Facility Of transportation
to market will be aided by railways, but
these are slow and costly to construct,
and it will not pay to carry wheat BY
rail beyond Q certain distance"
Then the laboratory door is opened
and the bread eaters salvation brought
forth, but not all at once. Sir William
likes to work up gradually to his cli-
max. Referring to the recognized fact
that all crops require what is called q
dominant" manure, he says:
"Wheat pre-eminently demands nj
trogen, fixed in the form of ammonia or
nitric acid. All other necessary oonstit-
uents exist in the soil, but nitrogen is
mainly Of atmospheric origin and is
rendered 'fxed' by a slow and precari-
pms process which requires a combina-
ton Of rare meteorological and geo.
graphical conditions to enable il to ad-
vance at a sufficiently rapid rate to be-
come Of commercial Importance"
Nitrogen, then, is evidently the fairy
godmother which has to work the mir
acle. But how2 We are not to be made
happy just yet. Sir William ran over
~theseveral available sources of nitrogen,
and little comfort was to be found
therein. First Of all, there was the sui
phate Of ammonin formed by the distil-
lation Of coal In the process Of gasmak-
ing. But all Europe only produces 400,-
goo animal tons, SC this is dismissed az
Of pot much Significance.
Guano deposits 60 by the board in the
same way as being SO near exhaustion.
Next is the discovery Of Hellriegel and
Wilfarth that leguminous plants bear
on their roots nodosities Astounding in
bacteria endowed with the property Of
fixing atmospheric nitrogen. The sug-
gestion therefore arises Of cropping the
soil with clover and blowing in the
plant, when its nitrogen assimilation is
complete. But that has already been
done as far 40 10 safe, for the land soon
becomes what jig called follower sick"
and turns barren. Another invaluable
source Of fixed nitrogen to which Sir
William referred was the sewage and
drainage Of the towns. He said:
Individually the amount 80 lost is
trifing, but multiply the loss by tho
number 81 inhabitants, and we have the
etartlljpg fact that in the United King
dom We are eentept to hurry down our
drains and water COURSES into the sea
axed nitrogen to the value Of no less
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