. The story of corn and the westward migration. West of the Missouri River the lofty plateaus furnish a great grazing country, largely given over to cattle, horses, and sheep^ and therefore to a certain extent dependent upon the corn country of the Mississippi Valley must depend to a certain extent upon the corn of theupper Mississippi Valley. The population of the United States increasedtwenty-one per cent between 1900 and 1910. Thegreat problem confronting America to-day is howto make the land produce an ever-increasing amountof corn and wheat to furnish bread for the growingpopulation and t
. The story of corn and the westward migration. West of the Missouri River the lofty plateaus furnish a great grazing country, largely given over to cattle, horses, and sheep^ and therefore to a certain extent dependent upon the corn country of the Mississippi Valley must depend to a certain extent upon the corn of theupper Mississippi Valley. The population of the United States increasedtwenty-one per cent between 1900 and 1910. Thegreat problem confronting America to-day is howto make the land produce an ever-increasing amountof corn and wheat to furnish bread for the growingpopulation and to supply beef, pork, and horsessufficient for the needs of the people. We havecome into an era of study of the soil, experimentalwork in agriculture, and reforms in education. Improvements in Agriculture. It was clear toGeorge Washington while he was President that the The Last American Frontiers 241. From Professional Paper No. 37, U. S. Geol. Survey An abandoned hillside in North Carolina eroded or worn awayby the action of rain longer the land was cultivated the poorer it became,and that the richest lands were the new fields justcleared of forests, The richest lands in the past 24-2 The Story of Corn have been near the frontiers. As the old landswore out they were abandoned and new landscleared. The long stretches of old-field pine and thewashed-away hillsides to be seen in the East as wellas the South tell the story of mans inability in thepast to make the land increase in fertility. Washington was himself a careful farmer andwiser than most men in his generation, and herepeatedly called attention to these things. Asearly as 1785 agricultural societies were establishedin Pennsylvania and South Carolina, for even thenfood was beginning to grow scarce in some sectionsof the East. It was natural that the first agri-cultural schools should be established in the East,and that the fo
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