64 THE FARMER OF TO-MORROW 



their presence alone, $84,900 to the city's 

 realty values. 



Now apply this same idea to the 878,000,000 

 acres of farm land with which the American 

 farmer has been subsidized by his government. 

 The same idea applies here, though in another 

 phase. Land in cities depends for its value 

 on the desire of a mass of people to get to- 

 gether in the most favorable place to carry 

 on the process of manufacture and distribu- 

 tion. Farm land, the limited floor space of 

 the food plant, depends for its value on the 

 number of mouths to be fed by its products. 



We have seen that the birth of a child adds 

 $839 to the value of the city's real estate. 

 What does the birth of a child, the addition 

 of one to the population of the United States, 

 mean to the pockets of the Farmer of Yes- 

 terday, who "hung on"? What does the ad- 

 mission of every single soul of the ten million 

 aliens who flocked to our shores during the 

 decade ending in 1910 add to the value of 

 land farm land? 



The answer is a simple problem in arith- 

 metic. The increase in population in ten years 

 was sixteen millions. The increase in the dol- 

 lar value of the farm land in the same period 



