The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-12-11
MARKETING WORLDS
GREATEST PROBLEM
WE ARE LONG ON PRODUCTION,
SHORT ON DISTRIBUTION.
6y Peter Radford



The economic distribution Of farm
products is today the worlds greatest
problem and tie war, while 1t has
brought It's haraships. has clearly en-
phasizcd the Importance Of distribu-
ton az a factor in American agricul'
ture and promises TO give the farm
crs the cooperation Of the govern
mpnt and the business men the
solution Of their marketing problem.
This result will, in n 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
mcnt 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 win 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 N production nave
forced a chaaIa IN diet and one local.
ity has felt tho pinch OF want "hlle
another surlcitCd but tho world MS
whole has ever hrco land OF plenty
We now hay" less than onetcnth ol
The tillabi" laal of The car.As aurIo'"
under cultivation. and We not oHiy
have this surplus area to draw on nut
II is safe to estimate tnat In cas-" 81
dire acce1 tty onu.haf the cdrih
population could n the present time
knock their living out Of the trees
Of the forest gather II from via
vines and draw +, from streams. NO
one should become alarmed; the
world will never starvc.
The consumer has always feared
That The producer would not supply
MN ana II' NI""' NUS nun" v"
SION on th' statute ooohS u our MAJ
ana hh'i'h' "h" VIC 'aI'''r H'S o.,
urged 70 produce i''k''SSN ana WIN,
OUT reference 10 4 'l'arNol, anu ''E''u'
Tess o. the u'h'Anus W inc '0"S"''''''
lack to the SOIL
The city people have been urging
each other TO move back to the farn'
but very few OF them nave moved
We welcome our city cousins back TO
the soil and this earth's surface con
Trims l6.os2l6N,'Oo idle acres OF tili-
able land where they can make
living by tickling the earth win
forked stick, but we do not neod them
so far rs increasing production IL con-
cerred; we now have all the producers
we can use. The city man has very
erroneous ideas OF agricultural condl'
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 as 4 Farm.
Taking the world as che big farm,
we find two billion ceres OF land in
! cultivation. o! this amount there is
Approximately 80. 600 900 acres on the
western and l.2GO. 900, 900 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
produced.
The worlds annual crop approx.
mates fifteen billion bushels OF &C.
reals. thirteen billion pounds of fibre
and sixty.nvo million tons Of meat.
The average annual world crop for
the past five years. compared with the
Past l!alt PREVIOUS nan
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