in view of what European countries have done 
with inferior soils and less favorable climates. It 
would have added 634,000,000 bushels to our pro- 
duct last year. Here we perceive the answer to 
the question that the future asks. Here we see 
how the 200,000,000 people or thereabouts in the 
vear 1950 are to be fed. Here we see where the 
money must come from for our national support. 
It must be earned by and paid to the farmers of 
this country. Only thus may we escape an eco- 
nomic calamity more threatening and more real 
than the people realize. It will not come by wish- 
ing for it or by law-making or in any other way 
than through labor intelligently applied. It im- 
plies a greatly different agriculture from that 
which now prevails. 
To reach an average yield of from twenty to 
thirty bushels of wheat per acre in this country 
is as feasible as to increase capital by lending 
money at interest. How it may be done has been 
explained so often and is today so thoroughly 
taught in every agricultural college and at every 
experiment station in the country that one almost 
hesitates to repeat it. I am not now referring 
to market gardening or the intensive agriculture 
properly so-called by which marvelous results have 
been obtained, which, in the Island of Jersey gives 
an annual income of $250 per acre. It is possible 
to grow from 1,000 to 2,000 grains of wheat from 
a single grain of seed. There are rumors of ex- 
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