The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1914-12-18

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brought its hardships, has clearly EN-.
phasi3ed The importance OF distribu.
ton az a factor In American agricul.
luro u promises to give the farm.
"rs the cN operation Of the govern.
mont ard the business men the
solution Of their marketing problem.
This result will. IN a measure, com.
pensate rs 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 Whil, the depart
mont Of agriculture has reen dumping
tons of literature on thu farmer telling
him how 20 produce. the farmer has
been dumping tons Of products in the
nations garbageIran for want Of a
market
The World VIII Never starve.
A. no time since Adam and Eve
WEIR, driven from the Garden Of Eden
have the inhabitants Ut this world
suffered from lack " production, but
some unoplc have gone hungry from
the day ~ creation 10 this good hour
Tor the lack NJ proper distribution
Slight variations In ]prunlction have
forced a change zoo diet and one local
NV has folt the pinch OF want while
another surloitod hut the world rs a
whole has ever boon a land Of plenty
We now have less than onc.touth OF
The ullublc land of the oarth's surface
under cultivation and we mot only
n +. snfn tu estimate that I'm case OF
dire necessity one.half tho carih's
population could at the present time
knock their living out OF IN" trees
NJ the forest gather II from Wild
vines and draw Il from streams No
ono should become alarmed the
world will never starve.
rho consumer has ALWAYS feared
that the producer would not suuplE
hlr and his fright has found expires
sion on the statute books ~ our states
and nations and tho farmer has b. IN
urgod 10 produce rockloss'y and with.
ont reference to a market. aud regard.
less Of the demands OF the consumer
Back 20 the Soil
Tho city people have been urrin"
each other to move back to the farm,
but very fcv OF thrm have moved.
We welcome our Clt, cousins back 10
the soil and this o'rths sur'nc" con.
taius IGuo@. 1850 oo0 idle acres Of nm.
able land whore they can max" a
living by tickling the earth with a
furFod stick but We do not need them
so far as increasing production Is con.
cernod. We now have an the producers
vc can use The CITY man has very
erroneous ideas Of agricultural condi
tions. The commonly accented theory
that we are short on production is all
wrong Our annual increase in pro
duction for exceeds that ~ our In
crease in population
The World as a Farm.
Taking the world as n bic farm
We find two billion acres of land 10
cultivation or this amount ther" IL
ppnruyimatgly $50 U0O. 200 acres on the
western and geo ora GOO acres IN th'
eastern hemisphere in cultivation
This estimate. Of course, does not In
c'tIa grazing lands. forests, etc.
where large quantities OF meat arr
produced
Tn, worlds annual cro onnroNi
mates 0rfncu billion bu-N"la Of O.
reals thirteen billion pound n "h"
nrd @sivty.dv" million tons ul mont
The avcrn", annual world nr'p Il"
tho mast five yoare compared ".'h 'N.
previous five wear, Is as follows
past Half Previous Hal
Crops Drnn1" D. ldc
corn DPul a9"l17i GOO $40" BE- 90
vhrat,Rul 2.I9o. 200 Ooo 2.2i 5"' "o
oats tNul. Li2oo'7 GOO 3,5r. 3''oo
Co]ttoutU1lcsI la.SG3, 500 o. ST. 2o
Tho world shows an average IL
crease In cereal production Of II pc
cont during the past decade comror"
with the previous i've years, while IN
worlds population shows an incroas
ST only three per cont
The gitr On rru 'lrtiuu 'nl exceed
TINT Of eur iucrnu-, M population nn
n T. safe to estimate that ~" ''r'n'
can easily increase production .. pc
cent If a rrmunorative market can b
found for the products I'm teNil
Rbres the world shows am incr"as
during the past halt decade iu prodn'
ton os II per cent against % populi
ton increase OF three per cent.
The people Of this nation Shout
address themselves ~ 'hr Nhi"ri
improved facilities for distribution.