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THE FOOD CRISIS AND AMERICANISM 



lands were surveyed, grain measured, or both simply 

 estimated. 



TABLE No. 5 



FERTILITY IN FARM PRODUCE, APPROXIMATE MAXI- 

 MUM AMOUNTS REMOVABLE PER ACRE ANNUALLY 

 Produce Pounds Market Value 



Kind 



Amounts g 



: g 

 * a fi*l' a 





Professor Hopkins says, " The figures given in this 

 table are based upon averages of large numbers of 

 analyses of normal products, of which some have 

 been made by the author and his associates, and many 

 others by various chemists in America and Europe. 

 These averages are trustworthy." . . . " On the 

 whole, however, it is as nearly correct to say that a 

 fifty-bushel crop of wheat requires 96 pounds of ni- 

 trogen and 1 6 pounds of phosphorus as it is to say that 

 a measured bushel of wheat weighs 60 pounds. " 



With an object lesson of soil robbery, extending 

 along the Atlantic seaboard, from the Carolinas to the 

 Canadian lines, resulting in wholesale farm abandon- 



