OUR DAILY BREAD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9651, 16 November 1909, Page 4

OUR DAILY BREAD.

According to a writer in the American "Review of Reviews," thtre is no danger that the world will run short of the wheat necessary for the production of ils daily bread. Immense areas have still to be laid down in wheat, and the wheat supply of the world can be doubled by improved methods oi agriculture. In the last few years m the United States, the number of people engaged in agriculture has increased by 40 per cent., while the value of farm products increased by 200 per cent., and the value of all farm property has increased by 89 per cent. When we compare the average wheat yield of the United States for the last 10 years of 13.78 bushels per acre with the average yield in England during the same period of 31.13 bushels per acre, the average yield in France of over 20 bushels and fn Germany of 28 to 30 busnels, we at once see the stupendous possibilities of increase in the world's production ot wheat through proper methods of husbandry. An increase of only five bushels an acre in th«? yield of the United States alone would amount to about 238,000,000. bushels.