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| ARE THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY…
ARE THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY TO STARVE. STARTLING REVELATIONS AS TO THE WHEAT SUPPLY. ——— A GREATER DISASTER THAN THE RECENT STRIKE. A remarkable address was given at the opening meeting of the British Association at Bristol by i the President, Sir William Crookes. He dealt with the question of food supply, and said: — My chief object is of interest to the whole world-to every race-to every human being. It is of urgent importance to-day, and it is a life and death question for oenerations to come. I J mean the question of food supply. Many of my statements you may think are of the alarmist or- der; certainly they are depressing, but they are founded on stubborn facts. They show that Eng- land and ail civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quan- tity, and -the Awd thai will grow wheat is abso- lutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena. I am constrained to show that our wheat producing soil is totally unequal to the strain put upon it. After wearying you with a survey of the universal dearth to be expected, I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turn- ed into plenty. What are our home requirements in the way of wheat? The consumption of wheat per head of the population (unit consumption) is over six bushels per annum; and, taking the pop- ulation at 40,000,000 we require no less than 240,000,000 bushels of wheat, increasing annually by 2,000,000 bushe's, to supply the increase of population. Of the total amount of wheat con- sumed in the United Kingdom, we grow 25 and import 25 per cent. So important is the question of wheat supply that it has attracted the attention of Parliament, and the question of national gran- aries has been mooted. It is certain that in case of war with any of the Great Powers wheat would be contraband, as if it were cannon or powder, liable to capture even under a neutral nag. We must, therefore accept the situation and treat I wheat as munitions of war, and grow, accumulate, or store it as such. It has been shown that at the best our stock of wheat and flour amounts only to 64,000,000 bushels—14 weeks' supply-while last April our stock was equal to only 10,000,000 bush- I els, the smallest ever recorded by Beerbohm for the period o fthe season. Similarly, the stocks held in Europe, the United States, and Canada, called "the world's visible supply," amounted to only 54,000,000 bushels, or 10,000,000 less than last year's sum total, and nearly 82,000,000 less than that of 1893 and 1894 at the corresponding period. To arrest this impending danger it has been proposed that an amount of 64,000,000 bush- els of wheat should be purchased by the State and stored in national granaries, not to be opened, except to remedy deterioration of grain, or in view of national disaster rendering starvation im- minent. This 64,000,000 bushels wou'd add ano- ther fourteen weeks' life to the population; as- suming that the ordinary stock had not been drawn upon, the wheat in the country wSuld only then be enough to feed the population for 28 weeks. I do not venture to speak authoritatively on national granaries. More hopeful ,although difficult and costly, would be the alternative of growing most if not all, our own wheat supply here at home in the British Isles. A total area of land in the United Kingdom equal to a plot of 110 miles square, of quality and climate sufficent to grow wheat to the extent of 29 bushels per acre, -does not seem a hopeless demand. It is doubtful, how- ever, if this amount of land coul i be kept under wheat, and the necessary expense of high farming j faced, except under the imperious pressure of im- pending starvation, or a stimulus of a national subsidy or permanent high prices. At enhanced prices land now under wheat will be better farmed, and, therefore, will y:e.ld better, thus giving in- creased production, without increased area. The burning question of to-day is. What can the Un- ited Kingdom do to be reasonably safe from star- vation in presence of two successive failures of the world's wheat harvest, or against a hostile com- bination of European nations? We eagerly spend millions to protect our coasts and commerce, and millions more on ships, explosives, guns, and men; but we omit to take necessary precautions to sup- ply ourselves with the very first and supremely important munition of war—food. To take up the question of food supply in its scientific aspect, I must not confine myself exclusively to our own national requirements. The problem is not re- stricted to the British Isles—the bread-eaters of the whole world share the perilous prospect—and I do not think it out of place if on this occasion I ask you to take with me a wide, general view of the wheat supply of the whole world. Wheat is the most sustaining food grain of the great Cau- casian race, which includes the people of Europe, United States, British America, the white inhabit, ants of South Africa, parts of South America, and the white population of the European Colonies. Of late years the individual consumption of wheat has almost universally increased. In Scandinavia it has risen 100 per cent in 25 years; in Austria- Hungary, 80 per cent; In France, 20 per cent; while in Belgium it has increased 50 per cent. Only in* Russia, and Italy, and possibly Turkey, has the consumption of wheat per head declined. In 1871 the bread-eaters of the world numbered 371,000,000. In 1881 the numbers rose to 416 millions; in 1891, to 472,600,000, and at the pre- sent time they number 516,500,000. The augmen- ntation of the world's bread-eating population in a geometrical ratio is evidenced by the fact that the yearly aggregates grow progressively larger. In the early seventies they rose 4,300,000 per annum, while in the eighties they increased by more than 6,000,000 per annum, necessitating annual addi- tions to the bread supply nearly one half greater than sufficed 25 years ago. How much wheat will be required to supply all these hungry mouths with bread ? At the present moment it is not pos- sible to get accurate estimates of this year's wheat crops of the wor'd, but an adequate idea may he gained from the realised crops of some countries j and the promise of others. To supply 516,500,000 bread-eaters, if each bread-eatin, unit is to have his usual ratio, will require a total of 2,324,000,000 bushels for seed and food. What are our pros- pects of obtaining this amount? According to the ¡ best authorities,, the total supply from the 1897-8 harvest are 1,921,000,000 bushels The require- ments of the 516,500,000 bread-eaters for seed and food are 2,324,000,000 bushels; there, is thus a deficit of 403,000,000 bushels, which, has not ben i urgently apparent, owing to a (surplus of I 300,000.000 bushels carried over from the last har- 'I' vest. Respecting the prospects of the harvest year just beginning, it must be borne in mind that I, there are no remainders to bring over from last harvest. We start with a deficit of 103.006,000 buna's, and have 6,500.000 more mouths to feed. I It folows, therefore, that one-sixth o-F the re- o:: quired bread will be lacking unless larger drdtit than now seem possible can be made upon early produce from the next harvest. That scarcity and high prices have not prevailed in recent years is due to the faot that since 1889 we have had serea world crops of wheat and six *of rye abundantly in excess of the average. These generous crops im- crea.sel accumulations to such an extent as to ob- scure the fact that the harvests of 1895 and 1896 were each much below leurl-wt frequifcenfents. Practically speaking, reserves are now exhausted, and bread-eaters must be fed from current bar- vests—accumulations under present conditions be- ing almost impossible. This is obvious from the fact that a harvest equal to that of 1894 (the great- est crop on record both in acre yield and in the aggregate) wouldyield less than current needs. It is clear we are confronted with a colossal prob- lem that must tax the wits of the wisest. When the bread-eaters have exhausted all possible sup- plies from the 1897-98 harvest, there will be a de. ficit of 103,000,000 bushels of wheat, with no sub- stitution possible unless Europeans can be induced to eat Indian corn or rye bread. The present position being so gloomy let us consider future prospects. What are the capa- bilities as regards avable area, economic con- ditions, and acreage yieild of the wheat-growing countries from whence we now draw our supply? For the last 30 years the United States have been the dominant factor in the foreign supply of t wheat, exporting no less than 145,000,000 bushels. j This shows how the bread-eating world has de- j pended, and still depends, on the United States ■ for the means of subsistence. The entire world's contributions to the food-bearing area have averaged but 4,000,000 acres yearly since 1869. It is scar- cely possible that such an average, under existing conditions, can be doubled for the coming 25 years. Aimost yearly, since 1885, additions to the wheat-growing area have diminished, while the re- quirements of the increasing population of the States have advanced, so that the needed Ameri- can supplies have been drawn from th<\ acreage I hitherto used for exportation. Practically there remains no uncultivated prairie land in the United States suitable for wheat-growing. The virgin land has been rapidly absorbed, until at present there is no land left for wheat without reducing the area for maize, hay, and other necessary crops. It is almost certain that within a generation the ever- increasing population of the United States will consume all the wheat grown within its borders, and will be driven to import, and, like ourselves, will scramble for a lion's share of the wheatcrop of the world. After reviewing the wheat-produc- ing capacities of Russia, Manitoba, and the North- West Provinces, Australasia, Uruguay, North and South Africa, and India, the president continued Since 1871 unit consumption of wheat, including seed, has slowly increased in the United States to the present amount of six bushels per head per annum; for the eight years ending 1878, and at the present time is 4.5 bushels. Under present conditions of low acre yield, wheat cannot long i retain ^its dominant position among the stuffs of the civilised world. The details of the inmending catastrophe no one can predict, but its general direction- is obvious enough. Should all the wheat-growing countries add to their area to the utmost capacity, on the most careful calcula- tion the yield would give us only an addition of some 100,000.000 acres, supplying at the average world yield of 12.7 bushels to the acre, 1,270,000,000 bushels, just enough to supply the mcrets.e of population amongr bread-eaters till the year 1931. At the present time there exists a de- ficit in the wheat area of 31,000 square miles— a deficit masked by the fact that the ten world- crops of wheat harvested in the ten years ending 1896 were more than 5 per cent. above the aver- age of the previous 26 years. When provision shall have been made if poss'ble to feed 230,000,000 units likely to be added to the bread- eating populations by 1921-by the complete oc- cupancy of the arable areas of the temperate zone now partially occupied-where can be grown the additional 330 million bushels of wheat required ten years later by a hungry world? What is to happen if the present rate of population is to be maintained, and if arable areas of sufficient ex- tent cannot be adapted and made contributory to the subsistence of so great a host ? Are we to go hungry and to know the trial of scarcity? That is the poignant question. Thirty years is but a day { in the life of a nation. Those present who may attend the meeting of the association thirty years hence will judge how far my forecasts are justified. If bread fails-not only us, but all the bread- eaters of the world-wliit are we to do? Other races vastly superior to us in numbers but differ- ing widely in material and intellectual progress. are eaters of Indiain oorn, rice; millet, and other grains, but none of these grains have the food value, the concentrated health-sustaining power of wheat, and it is on this account that the accumu- lated experience of civilised mankind has set wheat apirt as the fit and proper food for the develop- ment of musc'e and brains. I have said that starvation may be averted through the laboratory. Before we are in the grip of actual dearth, the chemist will step in and postpone the day of famine to so distant a. period that we, and our sons and grandsons, may legitimately live without undue solicitude for the future. We mlst then rely upon (nitrogenous manures to increase the fertility of the land under wheat, so as to raise the yield from the world low average—12.7 bushels per acre—to a higher average.
WTNi i.sG ACCIDENT AT HAFOD.
WTNi i.sG ACCIDENT AT HAFOD. On Sunday morning a wihding accident occurred at the Trevor Pit, Hafod, the, property of the Lew.s Merthyr Company, but fortunately no damage was done. the cage, whclh was a double decker and empty, being detached by the safety hook just below the sheaves. The rope flew over the en- girio house, striking off a sp'inter from the wood work of the roof. The cage hung to the safety- hook high up in the cage all day.