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Conservation - Overproduction
By L. B. Henretty Win practice conservation, . farming in the face of overprcduction? This question is foremost ill the minds of many people. It is a recognized fact that no ical food shortage exhists in th’s county. Although there^ are a number of people underfed as a resu't o: not being economically able to purchase the necessary foods.
If one will project their thinking into the not too distant future the answer >s evident. I he Census Bureau estimates that the population of the l nbe.l States will more than double be the year 2000. On our present lea < 1 of pro. dnotion th's would not on'e absorb - the over production but . result in manv going hungry. ’» This is not the whole story. In
there was 3.1 acres ot cropland to produce the food and fiber fop each person, in the l nitcil Stares. Bv the year 2000 only 1.6 —^ acres will he available . foi eacn person. This takes into consideration "new lands that.can he brought into cultivation as well ns present -croplands that will be lost to municipal,,, industrial and public developments. . .
Chemical research will hnd new uses for manv agricultural products other than those we now know. This too wll increase the demands on our agricultural lands. * After considering all of the obvious facts one can see the necessity of intensifing our efforts to
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