Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-01

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 products Is today fhe worlds greatest
 problem and the war. while 1t has
 brought It's hardships has clearly em- phasized the importance of distriDu- | ton as a factor in American agricul' | ture and promises to give the farm CTS the cooperation of the govern ment and the business men the | | solution of their marketing problem | This result will fin a measure, com l | pensate us for our war losses, for the | business interests and government i | have been in the main assisting al- most exclusively on the production 1 l 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 a
 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
 lty has felt the pinch of want, while
 another surfeited. but the world as
 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
 lt 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 it from wild vines and draw it from streams. No one should become alarmed; the world will never starve.
 The consumer has always feared that the producer would not supply B him and his fright has found express r 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 i less of the demands of the consumer Back to the Soil.
 - The city people have been urging each other to move back 10 the farm, I- but very few of them have moved. T We welcome our city cousins back to d the soil and this earth's surface con a tains 16 .0q2 i COG 900 idle acres of till- n able land where they can make a living by tickling the earth with a @ forked stick, but we do not need them D. SO far as increasing production is con
 cerned; we now have all the producers }. we can use The city man has very d erroneous ideas Of agricultural condi- F. tions The commonly accepted theory ) that we are short on production is all B, wrong. Our annual increase in pro. d auction far exceeds that of our in. 1- crease in population.
 't The World as a Farm.
 IS Taking the world as one big farm 70 we find two billion acres of land in d cultivation. Of thls amount there is 'e approximately 750OO0 900 acres on the lf western and ,26O 100000 acres on the a. eastern hemisphere, in cultivation ss This estimate. of course, does not In ts clude grazing lands, forests, etc. g where large quantities of meat ar' 5s produced
 e The worlds annual crop approxl le mates fifteen billion bushels Of ce le reals thirteen billion pounds of hbr at and sixty-hve million tons of meat. Ie The average annual world crop fol K the past five years, compared with th' t. previous five years. is as follows: le Past Half Previous Hal ie Crops- Decade. Decade. lg Corn CBu) 3,934,174OO0 3403,655,OO le Wheat(Bu) 3,522, ,769.OOO S,257 LOO re Oats tBul 4l2O.Ol7OOO 3,5Os $500 In Cotton (Balesl 19,SG3, 800 17,541,20 n- The world shows an average in le crease in cereal production of 13 pc n, cent during the past decade, compare of with the previous five years, while tn of worlds population shows an inereas tn of only three per cent.
 n The gain in production far exceed ls that of our increase in population. an hs 1t is safe to estimate that the farme
 can easily increase production 25 pc
 cent if a remunerative market can b
 found for the products. In textil
 flores the world shows an increas during the past half decade in produ
 ton of 15 per cent against a popul 'ti ton increase Of three per cent.
 The people of this nation shouI IA, address themselves to the subject '' improved facilities for distribution.
 Oyerproduction and crop mortgai
 force the farmers into ruinOus onT
 petition with each other. The rarpet