Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-12-24


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
market.
The World viii 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 a
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
II Is safe to estimate that in case or
dire necessity one-half the earth's
population could at the present time
knock their living out OF the trees
OF the forest, gather It 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 market, and regard
less OF the demands OF the consumer.
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 1902, 100, 900 idle acres OF till
able land where they can make
living by tickling the earth with
forked stick, but we do not need then
so far as increasing production Is con
cerned; we now have all the producer
we can use. The city man has very
erroneous ideas of agricultural condi
tions. The commonly accepted theor!
that we are short on production Is al
1 wrong. Our annual increase In pro
] duction far exceeds that OF our II
( crease in population
The World as Farm.
e. Taking the world as one big farm
D we find two billion acres OF land i
cultivation. or this amount there |
approximately $4,000, 900 acres on tn
western and ,26O.OO0.OO0 acres on tn
eastern hemisphere. in cultivation
This estimate, OF course, does not II
clude grazing lands, forests, etc
where large quantities OF meat al
produced
l. The worlds annual crop approx
e mates fifteen billion bushels OF c
l. reals thirteen billion pounds Of fibl
e and sixty-five million tons of meat.
p The average annual world crop Il
= the past Ave years. compared with Il
-, previous five years. is as follows;
- Past Half Previous Ha
Crops Decade. DECADE.
II Corn (Bu) 1894 ,174.OOO 3.403. $500
IT Wheat (Bu) 1922. 10000 3,257 $500
y Oats (Bu) 4.120.O17.oOO S.5os'Sl5O
is Cotton Bales) 19.S63,sO0 1884,
lie The world shows an average
it crease in cereal production OF IL p
n. cent during the past decade. compar
" with the previous five years, while {
worlds population shows an increa
of only three per cent.
The gain in production far excee
that Of our increase in population. a
'e Il is safe to estimate that the farm
rd can easily increase production %
Id cent If a remunerative market can
e. found for the products. In text
n fibres the world shows an incre;
IS. during the past half decade In prod
no ton of Is per cent against popu
~, ton increase OF three per cent.
800 The people of this nation sho
90 address themselves to the subject
vi improved facilities for distribution.
.' Over.production and crop mortgi
oe force the farmers into rulnous CO
ne petition with each other. The rem'