SOIL SCIENCE
LIMITS OF POPULATION
[United Press Association.—Copyright) WASHINGTON, 17th June. Professor Albrocht Penck,. oi Holland, addressing the International Congress on Soil Science, said the limit of population with all the coltivatable land tilled was approximately eighty billion.- There were still vart areas to be drawn into the service of man, and also in greater part the world productivity per unit could be very much increased. Many people denied that the white man could exist in most tropical regions for more than one generation or so. ,He believed the white man could acclimatise himself if he migrated step by step, and very slowly from the high border regions into the moist plains. •'■-,-
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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112SOIL SCIENCE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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