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PRODUCTIOX COMPARED WITH XORMAL INCREASE OF POPULATION. 



The statistical test that the farmers of tliis country have met in the 

 foregoing: examination of production per acre is not as severe as the 

 one which in varying degrees and in vai'ving niimbors of States they 

 are prepared to meet in a comparison of ])roducti(m per acre with 

 population. There is a prevalent misunderstanding with regard to 

 the nature of the increase of population in this country. It seems to 



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be assumed that the net immigration is to continue for a century and 

 over at the rate of one-half to three-fourths of a milhon people an- 

 nually. How (juickly inunigration can he reduceil to zero Mas shown 

 by the industrial depression of 1908. No one who woukl take a far 

 sight into the future would reckon upon an indefinite continuance of 



a considerable immigration 



