Home Production Indispensible to a Supply At Low Prices of the Manufactured C
Home Production Indispensible to a Supply At Low Prices of the Manufactured C
C D Todd
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" Truck farming" becomes a powerful argument in favor of increasing centers of population, when we consider that, at $1 per Bu. And 15 Bu. Per acre, it would require 246, 665 acres to yield a wheat product equal in value to the "garden truck " raised on the few acres of Cook County not oc- cupied by the City of Chicago. The following table prepared by J. D. Dodge, commissioner of agri- culture, will illustrate the relation of agriculture to other occupations and how a non-agricultural populatio...n and home markets make farming remun- erative : The States are divided into four classes. CLASSES. Per cent, population engaged in farming. Value of land per acre. Value of product per capita to cultivater. First Second Less than 30 per cent. 30 to 50 per cent $38. 65 3055 $457 394 Third 50 to 70 per cent 1353 361 Fourth Above 70 per cent. 518 160 These facts prove conclusively that a productive agriculture can only exist where there is a large town population. Having proved the correctness of the first of Mr.
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