THE GLEANERS 79 



States until the end of our raw land was in 

 sight a far cry. The German, who has re- 

 duced the science of gleaning to its ultimate 

 atom, cannot understand why the cost of living 

 should be a problem among us when we ignore 

 three out of every four acres, good and bad. 

 And the Hollander, entering or leaving New 

 York City (with its market made up of the 

 hunger of five million people), cannot under- 

 stand why the Newark Meadows almost as 

 big as their Harlem See is not reclaimed 

 from the tides and set to growing vegetables. 

 Germany supports sixty million people on an 

 area smaller in size and less fertile than our 

 single State of Texas and Texas is one- 

 third arid. 



It is these three out of every four acres that 

 we do not farm that are of supreme interest 

 and importance to the Farmer of To-morrow. 

 In these three out of every four acres there 

 is land to be drained, land to be irrigated, 

 land to be cleared of tree stumps left in the 

 wakes of a lumbering industry that had ruth- 

 lessly slashed and burned with no thought of 

 the morrow. And there is land to be humored 

 with specialized crops. Let us follow out the 

 process of gleaning that is already under way, 



