People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Studying a Little. [ARTICLE]

Studying a Little.

Well, pa, I have been figuring a litle and I find that an intelligent, inensive system of agriculture would •nalde us to raise food as follows: Four bushels of wheat for every human bein< in the United States can be aised oa 2,506,000 acre* of land; 2,600.)00 acres will supply every family with fifty bushels of apples; 195.n0 ( ) aeres of potatoes will furnish three bushe s for each one of us; 9.125.000 aeres cultivated in corn will supply a half pound >f pork a day to everybody over 20 .•ears of age; 473,000 acres will furnish i quart of strawberries a day for ten veeks to every one, and 303.<)<)0 acres •will give us a musiimelon apiece every lay for ten weeks. N<w to produce all he bread, meat and potatoes, apples, nelons and strawberries we can all ‘ at will require but 15,196,000 acres of and. Indiana alone contains 23,040,■)00 acres. Subtract 15,19*5,000 acres from this number and you have 7,844,>OO acres left, which is enough to furnish each person over 10 years of ige a pound of butter a week and still eave 3,500,000 acres for the use of building lots, vineyards, poultry yards, etc. In other wo’ds, enough of everything to eat can be supplied to our >5,000,000 people upon a spot of ground the size of Indiana. Well, what of it?—Stockwell’s Bad Boy. The newly- elected republican governors in the various states will give grand inaugural balls. About tbo samp time 4,000,000 people will go Jp bed h un g r y. end a million will sleep pn the streets, and take breakfast at spup hOßßefir