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to want by successful advertising. Demand for food products is 

 capable of almost unlimited expansion, provided the food article 

 is low in price, and of standardized grade and quality and pack 

 and the demand is carefully cultivated. 



The city population is increasing three times as fast as the \ 

 country population. This table from the census (where every 

 place of fewer than twenty-five hundred inhabitants is considered 

 rural) illustrates this tendency. 



Increase in Population, Rural and Urban, by Per Cents. 



1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 



Rural 13.7 12.1.. ..11.2 



Urban 54.4 35.5 34.8 



The average size of farms for the whole United States shows 

 little if any tendency to decrease. Here are the figures: 



Average Size of Farms, U. S. 



1880 133.7 acres 1900 146.2 acres 



1890 136.5 acres 1910. 138.1 acres 



The size of farms in the old, well-established farming section 

 (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas) shows a gradual 

 increase, as given in the following table: 



Size of Farms in Six Farming States. 



1880 124.3 acres 1900 136.9 acres 



1890 130.7 acres 1910 140.3 acres 



And in four of these six states the rural population showed a 

 decrease in the decade 1900 to 1910, while the urban population 

 in all states in the union showed an increase. Hence we see that 

 the problem of increasing the rural population and reducing the 

 size of the farm is a problem that is not being solved. 



QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT 



1. What according to many, is this Republic's ideal landowning system? 



2. State and explain Jefferson's ideal. 



3. Is the drift of population back to or away from the land? 



4. State in full the arguments for small farms as given by Laing. 



5. Give the views of Arthur Young; of John Stuart Mill. 



6. State the findings of the Wilson-Wallace Report. 



7. State in detail the position of Pratt, especially his comments on Denmark. 



8. Give von Engelken's picture of German farming. 



9. Describe the situation in Australia; in New Zealand. 



10. State the problem confronting the United States. 



11. Show relation of size of land holdings to overproduction. Quote Le 



Grande Powers. Discuss flexibility of demand. Illustrate. 



12. Quote G. Harold Powell on the overproduction problem. Show the sig- 



nificance of "savings" rather than "profits." Show the place of adver- 

 tising in this connection. 



13. Cite evidence to show where specialized farming tends to prevail and 



where diversified farming tends to prevail. 



