THE FOOD CRISIS AND AMERICANISM 9 1 



TABLE No. 6 

 Years Wheat Rye Barley Oats 



"A" f l8 30 18.7 21.2 35.6 46.2 



[1897 to 1904 46.1 34. 50.4 69.1 



"B" / J 8 2 5 to l8 34 21.04 21.63 30.19 31.85 



\i900 to 1004 36.14 32.52 43.23 57.80 



<<r ,, Ji830 to 1840 18.82 15.04 16.37 13-86 



\i885toi894 35.70 29.52 41.06 43-96 



Showing average yields per acre and at different 

 periods on three German estates, numbered " A," " B " 

 and " C " respectively, and the increased yield secured 

 by application of scientific principles, business methods 

 and intelligently directed labor. 



TABLE No. 7 



AVERAGE YIELD PER ACRE, STATE OF KANSAS 



1860-1889 1889-1908 Decrease 



Crop (Bu.) (Bu.) (Percent) 



Corn 34.2 21.6 36.9 



Wheat 15.3 n.8 22.8 



Oats 32.8 21.9 32.2 



Professor J. W. Spillman, of the United States 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, in referring to Table No. 

 7, is quoted as saying in Hoard's Dairyman of May 

 14, 1909, " These figures are in general agreement 

 with the data from other sections of the country." 



Ignoring all this, certain men in the Federal De- 

 partment of Agriculture, some fifteen to eighteen years 

 ago, began to combat the theory advanced by Pro- 

 fessor Liebig, as well as by the managers of the 

 Rothamsted farms in England (where scientific agri- 

 cultural experiments have been continued for nearly 

 a century), and others, claiming to have had made a 



