GENESIS OF THE SOIL AND ITS POSSIBILITIES 207 



for practical purposes infinitely removed. We are now 

 feeding, within the boundaries of the United States, 

 nearly one hundred million people. When in a hun- 

 dred years from now we are feeding two hundred mil- 

 lion people, the quantity of food per head will he no 

 less abundant than at present. In those days now so 

 near at hand agriculture will be more a science and 

 more an art. The fields will all be gardens, and the 

 forests sources of income without destruction. The 

 life of man will be full of amenities which are now 

 denied the tiller of the soil, and the true aristocracy of 

 the earth will be composed of those in direct touch with 

 earth herself. 



