236 THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY 



Industry claim that before long we will partake of antelope 

 steak. For the antelope has been found to be particularly 

 adapted to the more arid western sections of the country. 

 And beyond that the gastronomist of the future will have to 

 reckon with loin of hippopotamus ! The lower valley of the 

 Mississippi is admirably suited to these huge beasts, the 

 flesh of one of which equals a score of cattle. African- 

 traveled epicures maintain that hippopotamus steak is as 

 tender and inviting as the choicest beef. "For those who 

 like that sort of thing, it is just the sort of thing they would 

 like." 



It seems a bit remote to urge hippopotamus on us who 

 do not yet know enough to eat sharks, tortoises, painted 

 turtles, or even English sparrows. Anyhow the small 

 gardener is more likely to succeed raising pheasants than 

 to muss with a hippopotamus, at least in the suburbs. Pigs 

 are more practical and make prettier pets. 



Our population bids fair to approximate two hundred 

 million within the next fifty years, and, because of the exi- 

 gencies of business, an increasing number of people will be 

 engaged in non-food-producing vocations. These people, 

 however, are all consumers and must be fed and clothed, 

 and even now America offers the greatest market for the 

 produce of the farm that any farmer in any country has ever 

 had in all history. 



One of the coming ways of feeding them is the discovery 

 and use of new foods. As in other things, after the war, 

 whether we live in a better world or not, we shall live in an 

 entirely different world, new ways, strange thoughts, and 

 other foods. For the most of the following, Business 

 America and Current Opinion are responsible. 



For the creation of new crop varieties or the improvement 



