Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1920 — Population and Land. [ARTICLE]

Population and Land.

The United States has a population of 88 persons to the square mile. In Denmark the population is 188.56 to the Square mile. In France, a great agricultural country, there are 191; in the United Kingdom, 379; In AustriaHungary, 197, and in Switzerland, 287 persons to the square mile. Frederick 0. Hoyv®. former commissioner of Im- , migration, estimated that if lands in the United States were cultivated as they are in other countries, and agriculture protected, the United States might have ten as many farmers as now live upon the soil, while our population might be 500,000,000.- ' 000 or more.