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Agriculture
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if fi y ROBERT R. GEIGER
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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 ‘
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In the past few years
has become a full-fledged
hand of agriculture. Better
were
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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. â–  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-
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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
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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’
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would have required 4,500,000 moreb
. farm workers to raise the crops^
lartment expert I this nation produced in 1944;
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horses and, mules were ferred from raising livestock feed Agriculture Department expert this nation produced in 1944;
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