. The Saturday evening post. COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, NEW YORK CITY Our LastUndeveboped Empire TO-DAY thegreater part ofthe arablelands of the UnitedStates is under cul-tivation, whileone-half of the32,000,000 acres ofour reclaimable des-erts has been re-deemed by Federaland private irriga-tion projects. Theonly good cheaplands of the futurewill be the remaini ngacres of desert whichwater will convertinto fertile fields,and the unexploitedempire of interiorAlaska. There lie thefuture opportunitiesof the agriculturalpioneer. The UnitedStates is an agricul-tural country pri-marily. Fo
. The Saturday evening post. COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, NEW YORK CITY Our LastUndeveboped Empire TO-DAY thegreater part ofthe arablelands of the UnitedStates is under cul-tivation, whileone-half of the32,000,000 acres ofour reclaimable des-erts has been re-deemed by Federaland private irriga-tion projects. Theonly good cheaplands of the futurewill be the remaini ngacres of desert whichwater will convertinto fertile fields,and the unexploitedempire of interiorAlaska. There lie thefuture opportunitiesof the agriculturalpioneer. The UnitedStates is an agricul-tural country pri-marily. For severalgenerations farmingis likely to continueto be our chief pur-suit. In the mean-time, however, therehas been an unprec-edented and dis-turbing drift of ourpopulation to urbancenters. The pro-duction of foodstuffs per capita has consequently decreased,and our only salvation has been the larger use of machinery,which has resulted in a greater output per person on ourfarms. We can hardly expect to continue to benefit
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