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MOUTH OF F,RIF CANAL : BUFFALO 



"Truly the man who dines well ought to be a deep student of geography, for all races, 

 all nationalities, all types of people, all points of the compass, all latitudes — continent, island, 

 river, and sea — all must come to him as he looks over the bill of fare and tries to find those 

 things that delight his palate" (see text, page 107). 



According to the Statesman's Year 

 Book, Germany in 1912 had a surplus of 

 rye, the net exports of that crop being 

 valued at $22,000,000. On the other 

 hand, she imported barley to the value of 

 $100,000,000, corn to the value of $26,- 

 000,000, butter worth $40,000,000, and 

 $28,000,000 worth of lard. 



WORLD STARVATION AVERTED 



The economists of a hundred years 

 ago did not foresee the revolutionizing 

 discoveries that were to come in the cen- 

 tury ahead of them. They had no hint 

 that it would go down in history as one 

 of the most momentous of all the ages, 

 from the standpoint of the world's food 



supply ; for three discoveries in the field 

 of food production, any one of which 

 well might stand for a whole millennium 

 of progress, were made by a single gen- 

 eration of men. 



When Cyrus McCormick gave to the 

 world the first reaper, he ushered in the 

 age of agricultural machinery, enabling 

 one man to do the work that required 

 five before, and making him able to care 

 for any crop the earth might give him. 

 The world's production will never get too 

 large for the machine-aided farmer to 

 handle. 



It was only a little while later that the 

 great chemist Leibig worked out the prin- 

 ciples of plant nutrition and introduced 



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