1890.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 4. 101 



population on food supply. Throwing out the areas of 

 water, we have 540,204,160 acres of land on the east side 

 of the Mississippi River. Allowing that one-third of this 

 is mountain range and unimprovable land, we have left to 

 produce food, six acres each for every man, woman and 

 child of our sixty millions of people ; and it is agreed that 

 an acre and a fourth of well-cultivated land will yearly 

 produce the food of an adult human being. The provoking 

 cause of the vast emigration from the East to the West 

 during the last twenty years has not been a natural one, the 

 necessity of food or the disproportion between cultivable 

 land and people ; but it has been the innate propensity of the 

 Aryan race to rove and wander, which has been artificially 

 excited for speculative purposes. 



Adjourned to Wednesday, at 9.30. 



