First. let us talk a little about population. then agriculture. In the 1930s it was believed that our population was about to reach a peak and would then either level off or decline. At that time. death rates and birth rates were almost the same and we had virtually stopped immigration. It was predicted that by 1960 our population would reach 140 million and by 1980 it would be about 154 million. All of these ideas have A6617 been discharged and three things have happened. Immigration has been permitted to increase drastically. there has been a decline in our death rate. and a rapid increase has taken place in our birth rate. The summary of the situation is that our population is increasing at the rate of 21/2 million people each year. The last estimate I was able to secure indicated that by the year 2000. we will have from 200 to 300 million people in the United States.
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