WORLD’S WHEAT SUPPLY
INTENSIVE CULTIVATION NEEDED.
By Telegraph — Pi ess Association —Copyright (Times—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) LONDON, September 14. At the British Association Congress Professor Henry Dixon, D.Sc., F.R.S., said it was clear that the available proportion of the world’s wheat supply from extensive sources had been reached, and that we must depend in the future upon intensive farming, with its greater demands for labour. Two hundred and forty-two million acres wore at present under wheat; this area might ha increased to three, hundred millions. Thus the earth might finally bo able to feed permanently one thousand million wheat-eaters. ' More intensive cultivation would_ cause greater equalisation in the distribution of the population.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8526, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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