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The Presidents Annual Address

The Food Supply of the Future

Abstract

From various sources we have heard of late warnings of a deficiency in the food supply of the future population of the United States.

Thus President Jaines J. Hill in his address before the Bankers' Association, and more elaborately in his recent article in "The World's Work," sets forth in striking terms the growth of our population and the present limits of wheat production and predicts a shortage of not less than 400,000,000 bushels by the middle of the present century unless radical improvements in the prevailing methods of farming are speedily inaugurated.

Davenport, in his address at the dedication of Agricultural Hall at the University of Maine, calculates that if the rate of increase of population in the past one hundred years be maintained, the end of the twentieth century will see us with a population of twelve hundred millions, and emphasizes the fact that the agriculture of the future must be enormously productive in order to feed these teeming millions.