If given a square deal with other classes. of increasing the production of farm lands to meet all the demands of an everincreasing population. I read from page 5: The foregoing presentation of the Information that is possessed concerning the trend of agricultural production in this country. in comparison with population. makes it plain that in spite of the fact that the United States is now passing through some of the early and middle phases of agricultural land exploitation. it nevertheless appears that the Enal stage of better agriculture and increased production per acre has been reached in many States for a varying number of crops. and that production per acre is not only beginning to exceed normal increase of population. but really to exceed the actual increase. The ability of the soil and of the agricultural arts and sciences to produce crops at a rate greater than either the normal rate of increase of population or the normal as temporarily influenced by immigration has been demonstrated times innumerable by the Department of Agriculture. by the experiment stations. and by intelligent farmers all over the country. The potentiality of agricultural production as a national achievement sufficient for grov.th of population has been so numerously and so thoroughly demonstrated as to be now beyond Intelligent question. * * * Quietly the farmer has been rising from the depths Into which he was cast by the ruinously low prices In the -early nineties until now he has reached a plane where lie receives a welldeserved recompense for his labors. Irobably never before has the average farmer been In better condition than in recent years.
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