THE PROBLEM 15 



mg to feed our people and create our export 

 trade. 



We shall probably continue to extend the area 

 tributary to the great markets, we shall con- 

 tinue to invent labor saving devices, but with 

 all this we are face to face with the problem 

 of increased production from the area under 

 cultivation. 



Increased production from a unit area in 

 agriculture, the same as increased production 

 per capita in manufacture, means scientific 

 management. 



Scientific management is rapidly being 

 adopted in certain lines of agriculture. The 

 dairy industry furnishes most striking illustra- 

 tions of this. The recent developments in the 

 production, harvesting, transportation, and 

 marketing of citrus fruits from California 

 marks another signal success of the application 

 of scientific management. 



It has been determined that agriculture can 

 be capitalized and scientifically managed quite 

 as readily and with as marked a degree of suc- 

 cess as can the building of cars or the manu- 

 facture of lumber. In fact, one of the great 

 handicaps to successful agricultural develop- 

 ment in the past has been lack of dynamic capi- 

 tal and lack of expert management. 



