INTENSIVE FARMING - 1913 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER 1: THE PROBLEM . . . II. VEGETABLEG ROWING . . . 111. ONIONS . . . IV. CELERY . . . . . V. FRAMEC ULTURE VI. THE V EGETABLEF ORCINIGN DUS TRY . . . . VII. FRUIT G ROWING . . . . . VIII. SMALL FRUITS . . . IX. THEC ITRUSI NDUSTR . Y X. PLANT B REEDING AS A FACTO IN R INTENSIV FA E R MING . XI. SEED GROWING . XII. THE N URSERY A N EXAMPL O E F INTENSIVCREO P PRODUCTION XIII. IRRIGATIO . N . XIV. ANIMAL I NDUSTR . Y . XV. ECONOM O IC F S IN TENSI I V N E D US TRIES . . . . XVI, THE CROPPING SYSTEM AS A UNIT . . . . ILLUSTRATIONS A Field of Celery Grown by the New Celery Culture Plan Frontispiece FACING PAGE Intensive Agriculture as Seen in an Onion Field . . . 24 A Field of Earth Blanched Celery . 40 A Block of Outdoor Grown Head Lettuce . . . . . . . . . 48 An Apple Harvest . . . 64 Lemon Harvesting Scene . . . 88 Peaches by the Car Load . . 112 Picking the Golden Globes in California 144. Each year more millions of the inhabitants of the United States become dependent upon those who grow the food stuff of the nation. Our population is growing rapidly. There are more people to be fed. There must be an increased harvest to supply this increasing demand. This problem has in the past given us little concern because there were vast areas yet undeveloped. The increased harvest resulted from bringing more acres under cultivation. The population is still increasing at as rapid a rate as formerly, yet the wild lands have for the most part been brought under the plow. The capacity of these soils, under customary methods of agriculture, has been measured and their contribution is now reckoned in our annual harvest. The problems presented are I a nation with its tillable area under fence and its productive capacity tested and 2 a rapidly in-I I. 12 Increasing total population and a much more rapidly increasing urban population. A study of our foreign trade relatipns presents significant facts for considera6on inihis connection. We have been heavy exporters of grains and bread stuffs, but within the last decade there has been a rapid decline in this respect. In fact, we have ceased to be an important exporting nation. Yet with all this there has been no diminution of the annual harvest, the decline in exports is not to be accounted for by decreased harvest but rather as a result of increased home consumption. We will soon cease to be exporters of bread stuff S, all that our fields produce under present cultural practices will be required to feed our own population. After this condition has been reached, what then Shall we decrease the individual ration in order to provide for the increase in population as has been done in China Or shall we regulate the increase in population to conform to the present producing power of the land Or shall we demand a more bountiful harvest from our arable areas Few will willingly restrict their menu either in variety or in order that an increased population may be fed. The increased attention given to the problems of eugenics indicates that --This text refers to the Paperback edition.