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:• Agriculture Eased By Scien if fi y ROBERT R. GEIGER AP Newsfeatures Writer j r , : TBf flf « AY, DECEMBER 9,1949] WASHINGTON-In 50 years science and machines have just about doubled agriculture’s ability to produce. r That’s, the score-card of farm experts summing up progress in the first half of the 20th century. They estimate each acre of American land. can. produce 89 ^ per cent more of the foods and fjber needed for human consump tion than it could produce in 1900. i And because of mechanization the fanner himself is 115 per cent more capable of producing mate rials for human use than was the farmer of 1900. ' , - In the early 1900s steam and gasoline vehicles began appear ing on farms. This placed the 'farmer behind the steering wheel. ' It not only made the farmer more efficient but released additional acres for raising more food and . fiber for human consumption. While ‘ i j In the past few years has become a full-fledged hand of agriculture. Better were v ' ' i , declining from around 30,000,000 head to about 8,000,000, farm tractors, trucks and automobiles were increasing from zero to 10,000,000. science hired seeds created, more knowledge was uncovered about the use of fertil izers and insecticides, better ani mals were bred and more know how was accumulated about how to grow crops. Actually, fewer, agricultural workers now are producing far more feed and materials than were produced in 1900—and from approximately the same number of acres of croplands. ■ j i Breaking down the increases that have taken place, the experts rate each improvement as follows: 1. About 30 per cent of the in crease in supplies for human needs has come from acres no longer needed to feed horses and mules. Almost 60,000,000 acres were trans- ■xf- 'V-' cwsmm WTVfci* -- H ■jr 0} i PRE-CHR m I Come by now and see our fine selection i,r Belt of Records and Albums. y • OFF ON RECORD J : .-i lomes N. Main i * lianees Phone 2-1642 I jii mi jium |i. i 'Mil.. . ,l! '.."I' I' i mii Four members of the girls’ team of the Danish Gymn team prac tice one of the acts they will present in DeWare Field House, wv lli aJi w M • December 14. 41—4-— J! i Uj • to prodiicirig things for humans. 2. Most of the other 70 per cent increase comes from improved fam seeds and animals, from the itJ creased efficiency of machines and improvements in farming methods. Of he savings in manpower, one ‘ Dfe '■ sdys: . J If the farmers in World War III had used the same types of ma-jj chines and methods commonly in. use by farmers in world iyar I, it’ ... • - --.doo would have required 4,500,000 moreb . farm workers to raise the crops^ lartment expert I this nation produced in 1944; !! ' r horses and, mules were ferred from raising livestock feed Agriculture Department expert this nation produced in 1944; The Battal* It’s Christmas Time Again! i i , *. 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