BOUNDLESS AREA OF WHEAT LANDS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2305, 18 December 1889, Page 2

BOUNDLESS AREA OF WHEAT LANDS

So fa" from tho n?r>p. of land t'mt w : ll produce wUe&.y.-. I'.ng abort, tbo prob«bllltp iq tbatofthia ceroa' tharj tolght be produced suffiolent for ten t ; cnc) the proaent population of tho world. r Jotnu into particulars about the wha&l-suving area, tha Cincinnati PMoasOaHotit qnotup tHe^Utemeut of the United Stateo U.^nrsul Qener*) at St Petersburg, to tho ; ffdot that the grain-produolng; landa of Russia cover anrae 450 000 square miles of area — about 300,000,000 aorea. Thij \s represented iv divlaioos of about 260,000 jqm^'o mlloa of tha arable steppes and 190,003 of tho black hnda. The area under wheat onltnro la Russia, It is added Is about 30,000,000 acres Including rye and other oeroala, the total aroa piobably la oloie to 100,000,000 acre?, or approximately one-third of the grainproducing territory. Then It la a »ld that 1 i he largest part of the wh?,at bel , of the Amarfoan oont'nont 1(69 north of the boundary line of the Onited State*, m the Canadian North-Weet, where It la estimated that an area equivalent to fully 500,000,000 aorea or mor<> It suable to whetit production, and >ha Boil especially rlob ; also that these figures suggest the possibility of extension of wheat oultnre m Russia and America, the latter being exclusive oE the margin for extension within the limits of the United States. In the latter oonntry grain culture now covers abont 150 million acres, of which about 51 per cent is In maizs, 26 par cent wh at, 18 per cent oata, 5 per cent barley, rye, eto The writer might have referred to Africa, where there are vast tracts of fertile land at present ncused All this gooe to prove that, so far as land is oon - oerned, there is no occasion for aoy o£ the present population to starve.