PRIOa 25 CENTS. 



A COMPENDIUM 



OF THE WORLD'S 



Food Production and Consumption 



The Railway The Market Wrecker. 



C. WOOD DAVIS. 



.\UTHOR OF VARIOUS PAPERS IN THE ' FORaM," "ARENA" AND OTHER PERIODICALS. 



I. Food and Population, . . . . .1 



II. The Exhaustion of The Arable Lands. "Forum" 10 



III. Some Impending Changes, 17 



IV. The Farmer in The Coming Change, ... 22 



V. An Epitome of The Agricultural Situation, . . 24 



VI. Some Surplus Producing States, .... 26 



VII. An Open Letter, 29 



VIII. The Market "Wrecking Short-Seller— A Menace, . 31 



IX. The Farmer, The Investor, and The Railway. "Arena" 37 



X. Should The Nation Own The Railways ? "Arena" 49 



XI. The (Chicago) Economist's Opinion of Short-Selling, 63 



XII. Market Wreckers Prevent an Advance in Values, 65 



XIII. Some Phrases of Short-Selling, 67 



XIV. Opinions, Professional and Other, of Market Wrecking, 69 



XV. The Value of a Trade Journal's Data, ... 72 



The thanks of the Public and the Author are due to the manj' 

 Foreign Officials and American Ministers and Consuls who have 

 courteously aided in collecting the official data embraced in these 

 pages, and which gives them such value as they may possess. 



PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, 

 QODDAKD, KANSAS. U. S. A. 



EAGLC PRINTING HOUSE, WICHITA. KANSAS. 



Copyright, 1891, by C. Wood Davis. All^Ribhts Reserved. 



