THE LIMIT REACHED.
IN WORLD'S WHEAT SUPPLY. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Gooyricht "Timos" —Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, September 14. At the British Association Congress, Professor E{enry Dixon, D.Sc., F.R.S., said it was clear.that tlio proportion of tho world's wheat supply from extensive sources had beon reached, and that we must depend in the future upon intensivo farming, with its greater demands for labour. Two hundred and forty-one million acrcs wero at present undor wheat; this area might bo increased to three hundred millions. Thus tho earth might finally ho able to feed permanently 0110 thousand million wheat-eaters. Moro intensivo cultivation would cause greator equalisation in tho distribution of the population.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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109THE LIMIT REACHED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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