Photograph and copyright by Keystone View Co. 



A NATIVE BAKER AT WORK: ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT 



The Egyptian baker's aim is to get the biggest possible loaf out of the smallest possible 

 amount of flour, with the result that the bread of the Nile Valley is largely a hole wrapped 

 in a crust. The material is rolled out like pie crust and the edges are joined all around. 

 Heat puffs it up into a balloon of bread. 



corn fourfold in less than five years, 

 when it passed out of the hands of Peter 

 Tumbledown and into the hands of his 

 prosperous neighbor on the other side of 

 the old line fence. And for a quarter of 

 a century that land has been growing bet- 

 ter with every crop rotation. It was the 

 application of Liebig's discoveries that 

 accomplished this result. 



What, then, becomes of the argument 

 of that school of thought which says that 

 soil exhaustion is the lesson of all agri- 

 culture and all history? 



The age of soil fertilization has con- 

 firmed to mankind the benefits of the age 

 of agricultural machinery, and will enable 

 the race to transmit them to his children 

 and children's children for generations to 

 come. 



SAVING OUR MEAT SUPPEY 



If McCormick taught the world how 

 to sow and reap, so that unborn millions 

 of people might have plenty, and if Lie- 

 big showed mankind how to insure them- 

 selves against the momentous evil of run- 



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