Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...with reference to temperature conditions, considerable readjustment is likely to continue in the relation of orops and of systems of farming, but inasmuch as only in a very small area in the United States are temperature conditions so severa as to preclude the production of such crops as hay, barley, nd potatoes, the margin of utilization of land for crops, as conrasted with its utilization for pasture or forest, is little afjoted by temperature conditions. The margin of utilization for »ome crops, particularly those whose production can be easily overLone,--cotton, the fruits, vegetables, potatoes, etc.,--is rising, that is,their production is concentrating into areas possessing the most favorable conditions: not other crops, particularly ay, corn, and the small grains, occupy the land thus released. The margin of utilization of land for crops, therefore, ith. reference to topography is rising, with reference to soils is robably stationery, on the whole, but likely to fall rapidly, un.ess importation of tropical food products becomes very important, rith reference to rainfall is falling, with reference to temperature Ls practically unaffected. Consequently in certain regions the oargin is rising, in other regions, falling; but for the United States as a whole it is apparently falling, that is agricultural settlement Ls advancing onto poorer and poorer land. One who has seen the struggles and failures of the young, ambitious, and often capable farmers in the drier portions of the Great Plains, in the sandier sections of the ake States, or on the leached lands of the South, becomes convinced that the good land is occupied and that land both cheap and fertile no longer exists in the United States. The phenonenal rise in rents and in values of the best la...
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