468 SORGHUM. 



increased prices shall be obtained, there is little doubt but that in the 

 future, as in the joast, exportation will continue, and the results are 

 inevitable. So, too, the system of large farms and large crops in 

 the aggregate, though with scanty acreage yield, is possible now 

 with the comparatively scattered population of the great West. It 

 is more than probable that, Avhen our population shall have increased 

 from 50 to 100 or 150 millions, we shall be forced to abandon methods 

 of farming which already are regarded with apprehension by those 

 wlio have investigated them. 



But there remain other methods than those indicated for the im- 

 provement of our lands, the discussion of which will be reserved for 

 another paper at some future time. 



