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cause they wish to be given special privileges which would have to 

 he taken away from timber men for the purpose. The basic difference 

 between the cattle men's losses and what you and I pay for meat is 

 chiefly a distribution question. Eventually the cattle, sheep and hogs 

 raised under conditions of sub soil crops jdIus interspace crops of 

 annu tl ])l,ints will take out the long liaul cost of meat. This will 

 permit of the making of smaller distribution charges in general and 

 should give us much cheaper meat. 



Now for the third group of essentials. The "running out" of 

 cultivated varieties of animals and plants, including cultivated varie- 

 ties of man, has been exemplified during civilizations of the past. 

 The question is one relating to protoplasm rather than one of primary 

 social significance. We may anticipate the running out of civilized 

 peoples of today in accordance with laws belonging to natural history. 

 It is unfortunate that the birth control argument has been interjected 

 iuto the over population question. It has genuine values of its own 

 in connection with various stigmata of physical and mental decline 

 which belong to heredity in certain families. It has a bearing also in 

 certain phases of poverty although these will be found to appertain 

 more largely to ])olitics and to systems of land tenure, both of which 

 are remediable. Birtli control with the object of conserving food 

 supplies would be particularly disastrous for Japan. This ascendant 

 group of people belonging perhaps to a coming new cultural period 

 for the world needs all of the minds that can be brought forth and 

 developed for application in the collateral sciences of agriculture. 



The more people there are in the world the ■ better. The more 

 ))eople the more teachers there will be on the subject of food supplies 

 for the peoples of today and for tomorrow's nations. "The sub soil 

 constitutes a new agricultural frontier for the world." 



