THE FARMER OF TO-MORROW 



United States for forty years, as compiled 

 from the Bureau of Statistics' records, is as 

 follows : 



Largest wheat yield in any year for forty years in several groups of States 



Bushels 

 Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama 11.2 



Kentucky and Tennessee 14.3 



Texas and Arkansas 15 . 2 



Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, and Illinois 16.6 



Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri 16.7 



Ohio, West Virginia, and Indiana 17.9 



New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland 19.7 



California 20.0 



Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois 20 . 2 



Oregon 21 . 1 



Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York 22.4 



"It is safe to say that the soils of Europe 

 have been occupied for agricultural purposes 

 for one thousand to two thousand years 

 longer than those of the United States, yet 

 during the past twenty-five years ten out of 

 the sixteen countries of Europe reported upon 

 have produced more wheat per acre than any 

 of the groups of States in the United States 

 during the past forty years." 



The National Conservation Commission 

 never went further in its attempt to block out 

 the soil resources of the country. The report 

 of the comparisons of the soils of the United 

 States and those of Europe (4,142 analyses 

 being included in detail) was printed as part 



