WORLD'S WHEAT SUPPLY.
INTENSIVE CULTIVATION.
DEMANDS UPON LABOUR.
Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable.
London, September 14. Addressing the British Association on Saturday, Professor Henry Dixon, of Dublin University, said it was clear that the available proportion of the world's wheat supply from extensive sources had been reached, and the nations must depend in the future upon intensive farming, with its greater demands upon labour.
The 242,000,000 acres at present under wheat might be increased to 300,000,000, and thus the earth might finally be able to feed permanently 1,000,000,000 wheat-eaters.
Intensive cultivation would cause greater equalisation in the distribution of the world's population.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15407, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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