The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-12-31

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brought its hardships. has clearly EN-
phasized the importance Of distribu
ton as q factor In American agricul
ture and promises to give the farm
ers the cooperation Of the govern
ment and the business men the
solution Of their marketing problem
This result will, in measure, com
pensate US for our war losses. for the
business interests and government
have been in the main assisting al
most exclusively on the production
side of agriculture While the depart
ment Of agriculture has been 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 q
market.
The World viii Never etarve.
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 a
whole has ever been 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
1t is safe to estimate that in case of
dire necessity one-half the earth's
population could at the present time
knock their living out Of the trees
of the forest, gather 1t from wild
vines and draw 1t from streams. No
one should become alarmed; the
world will never starve.
The consumer has always feared
that the producer would not supply
him and his fright has found express
sion on the statute books of our states
and nations and the farmer has been
urged to produce recklessly and with
out reference to a market, and regard.
less of the demands of the consumer.
---e',4- Back to the Soil. --------'-.----
The city people have been urging
each other to move back to the farm,
but very few of them have moved.
We welcome our city cousins back to
the soil and this earth's surface con-
tains 16,092, 100000 idle acres of till
able land where they can make a
living by tickling the earth with a
forked stick, but we do not need them
80 far as increasing production is con-
cerned; we now have all the producers
we can use The city man has very
erroneous ideas of agricultural condi.
lions. The commonly accepted theory
that we are short on production is all
wrong. Our annual increase in pro-
duction far exceeds that of our in.
crease in population.
The World az a Farm.
Taking the world as one big farm,
We find two billion acres of land in
OF this amount there is
100000, 900 acres on the
western and 1850. 100000 acres on the
EASTERN hemisphere. in cultivation.
This estimate. of course. does not in.
Jude grazing lands, forests, ETC..
where large quantities Of meat are
'roduced.
The worlds annual crop approx.
mates fifteen billion bushels of ce.
calls, thirteen billion pounds of fibre
nd sixty-f1ve million tons of meat
The average annual world crop for
he past five years, compared with the
revious five years, is as follows:
Past Half Previous Half
Crops Decade. Decade.
orn (Bu.) 3,934.174G00 3,4O3.e55, 900
'heat( Bu.) 1922, 769, 900 3,257 ,526, 900
ats BUY 4,12O.017.00O 3.5OS, 315,0O0
ottop( Bales) 19,S63,S00 1854, 200
the world shows an average in
ease in cereal production OF IS per
mt during the past decade, compared
it'll the previous five years, while the
orld's population shows an increase .,
only three per cent.
rhe gain in production far exceeds !
at Of our increase in population. and !,
is safe to estimate that the farmer !
n easily increase production rs per u
mt II Q remunerative market can be 5
und for the products. In textile I
res the world shows an increase u
ring the past half decade in produc.
N of Is per cent against q popula-
N increase of three per cent. II
The people Of this nation should 3
dress themselves to the subject of g
proved facilities for distribution. u
0verproduction and crop mortgage :.