Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-12-17

aide OF agriculture. Wn:.s .0e oeEs:rlr
ment OF agriculture mas Deen dumping
tons of literature on the farmer telling
him how to produce, the farmer has
been dumping tons of products in the
nations garbage can for want of
market
The World Will Never starve.
At no time since Adam and Eve
were driven from the Garden of Eden
have the inhabitants of this world
suffered from lack of production, but
some people have gone hungry from
the day Of creation to this good hour
for the lack of proper distribution.
Slight variations in production have
forced a change in diet and one local
ity has felt the pinch of want, while
another surfeited. but the world as
whole has ever been a land Of plenty.
We now have less than one-tenth of
the tillable land Of the earth's surface
under cultivation, and we not only
have this surplus area to draw on but
it is safe to estimate that in case of
dire necessity one-half the earth's
| population could at the present time
! ln ck their llviae cut CT the trees
nf he forest, gather it from wild
win 8 and draw it from streams. No
on should become alarmed; the
We Id will never starve.
he consumer has always feared
| that the producer would not supply
/ rim, and his fright has found express
| sion on the statute books of our states
| and nations and the farmer has been
ur ed to produce recklessly and with
ouH reference to market, and regard
less of the demands of the consumer.
Back to the Soil.
he city people have been urging
| g. other to move back to the farm,
/ brc very few of them have moved.
! We welcome our city cousins back to
tho soil and this earth's surface con-
to rs 1902, 100000 idle acres Of till
nj e land where they can make
Ii, ing by tickling the earth with
forked stick, but we do not need them
SO far as increasing production is con-
&C ned: we now have all the producers
We can zee The CITY man has very
erronecrs idens Of Agricultural condi-
tions The commonly accept ed theory
that we are short on production is all
wrong. Our annual increase in pro-
dnction far exceeds that of our in
crease in population.
The Wcrld as a Farm.
liking the world as one big farm,
We find two billion acres of land in
cultivation OF this amount there is
approximately 750nnOOOO acres on the
western and 26O 100000 acres on the
eastern hemisphere. in cultivation.
This estimate, of course, does not in
clude grazing lands, forests, ETC.,
where large quantities of meat are
j produced.
81 The worlds annual crop approxi
mates fifteen billion bushels of ce
. reels, thirteen billion pounds of fibre
and sixty five million tons of meat
The average annual world crop fol
the past five years, compared with the
previous five years, is as follows;
Past Half Previous Hal
Crops Decade. Decade.
Corn (Bu) 3,934,1740O0 3,403,655,oO(
Wheat Gu.) 22,769,O00 3,257 ,526,oo'
Oats (Bu.) 4.12oo'7 900 @.50s,S15Oo'
Cotton (Bales) 1861 800 17,54l,2 O'
The world shows an average in
crease in cereal production of IL pc
cent during the past decade, compa"o'
With the previous five years, while thu
worlds population shows an increas'
of only three per cent.
i The gain in production far exceed
t that of our increase in population. ant
, it is safe to estimate that the farme
: can easily increase production % pc
: cent if remunerative market can b
: found fer tho r~oaucts. IN textil
: fibres the world shows an increas
: during the past half decade in produt
) ton of Is per cent against populs
| ton increase of three per cent.
The people of this nation shout
. address themselves to the subject {
/ improved facilities for d'ct-ibutinn-