The County Record

Good News for Farmer.

Scientists at Chicago University, according to press dispatches, are somewhat worried over what is going to become of the United States in the year 2000. One of them is quoted as saying that we will then have 325 millions of people in the country, packed like sardines. Water power is not being properly utilized, it is declared, soil is being wasted and sewage dumped into our rivers, forests destroyed and rivers of oil wasted.

All of which, of course makes a pretty gloomy picture. Maybe our country will have that many people in 2000 and maybe it won't. A lot of things can happen in seventy-four years, and besides that, there are still a lot of wide and open spaces in America. And the situation is not perhaps as serious as it looks. Necessity is generally the mother of invention, and it is likely that our scientists, including those at Chicago University, will solve the problems set out above, as rapidly as they become acute.

But at any rate the scientist above quoted brings the first word of real cheer to the farmer. When the country gets a population of over 300 million he is going to have to produce some real food to feed the hungry masses. Prices will go up and maybe land in the Middle West will sell at $300 an acre again. There seems to be hope in the future, therefore, for the poor farmer. He can console himself with the knowledge that the next seventy-three years are going to be the hardest.