Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1913 — The Habitable Barth. [ARTICLE]

The Habitable Barth.

Ids entire habitable area of the With is given at 48*000,000 square miles, of which the extreme fertile Barit may be pot at 37,000,000 square mikes. With the generally accepted sustaining capacity of 200 persons to the square mile, this area oould, by systematic tillage, ha made to yield —bststunos to 7,400,000,000 human be tags. It has been calculated that within ISO years the world's population wfll be swelled to 7,440,000,000 souls. What will happen MO years hence, whan the population of the earth will be HOQQ,OOO,OOO, remains to be seen.