HIS LIFE AND WORK 



If it had to be reaped with sickles, it would be a 

 ten-day harvesting for half the able-bodied men 

 in the two islands. 



Germany eats less wheat than Great Britain, 

 and raises more than twice as much. The Ger- 

 mans are skilled wheat-farmers. They grow 

 as much on half an acre of poor soil as Americans 

 grow on a whole acre of good soil. The Italians 

 eat very nearly as much as the Germans, and 

 raise a larger crop by dint of great labor on the 

 tiny farms and terraced hillsides of Italy. Both 

 countries tax the bread of the poor by a tariff of 

 thirty-eight to forty-eight cents a bushel on 

 foreign wheat. The Austrians and Hungarians, 

 in spite of a climate of extremes and sudden 

 changes, manage to supply themselves with more 

 than ten billion loaves of bread by the tillage of 

 their own fields, and usually have some flour to 

 sell to the neighboring countries. The Spanish 

 cannot quite feed themselves; in addition to the 

 wheat they grow, they are obliged to buy about 

 a hundred ship-loads a year. Denmark comes 

 out even. Portugal buys her bread for four 

 months of the year. Greece, Norway, and Swe- 



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