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that work, and a network of railroads has grown that today it 

 nearly encircles the earth. 



Robert Fulton made the steam engine available for water 

 transportation. Today we pass from New York to Europe in 

 five days, and the nations have been linked together and 

 unified in thought by steam-driven water commerce. 



Oil is the most abundant and easily portable of all liquid 

 fuels. Man's greatest power is that of turning the face of the 

 whole earth once each year by the plow. The building of an oil- 

 burning engine to do the work of plowing in this, the looth year 

 after the first steamboat, is a feat that will mean as much, possibly 

 more than the inventions of Stephenson and Fulton. 



THE WORLD'S WHEAT SUPPLY 



James J. Hill and James A. Patten have called attention to 

 the fact that we are pressing on the limits of wheat production, 

 and that unless the undeveloped districts of the United States, 

 the new lands of Canada, the Argentine and Russia are opened 

 rapidly, an actual dearth of wheat — that noblest of all foodstuffs — 

 is imminent. Wherever cattle are kept on a farm, the wheat- 

 producing area is curtailed. 



Nitrate fertilizers manufactured from the air by water power, 

 together with the revolution in plowing, which o^^ip will 

 effect will enable us to devote virgin areas exclusively year after 

 year to the production of wheat. With of^p these new lands 

 can be opened very profitably and ten times as rapidly as 

 at present. 



Qi/^tf - cuts the cost of producing a bushel of wheat in Plowing in 

 Canada, the Dakotas or Argentine ten cents, adding that much 

 to the pioneer farmer's profit. 



Owing to the drouth that im- 

 paired the hay crop in the Argentine 

 this year, there was a scarcity of 

 horses for the work of plowing. 

 The development of the Argentine 

 and in many districts even the 

 acreage already under cultiva- 

 tion, was curtailed. 



