Feeding the Masses Through Agriculture
More and more, the problem of how to feed the masses is coming before the intelligent men of the nations. The population of the world is increasing, the acreage of the world is the same. How to use it to the best advantage is one of the great questions. The University of California is planning, through its new agricultural director, Thomas F. Hunt, to feed the two million families which he expects California will have within its borders in the very near future; and in addition, to give just as practical an education as it is possible, from the development of better seed to the teaching of farmers, from the prevention of walnut blight to the teaching of the principles of plant and animal breeding. The university is going to ask the state for an appropriation of $814,360 for agriculture for the next two years. Surely it is doing worthy work to help all the agricultural interests of the state.