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Excerpt from Agricultural Research in New Hampshire: Annual Report if the Director if the Agricultural Experience Station for the Year Ending June 30, 1947 Malthus even expressed his findings in mathematical form. For exam ple, population tended to increase in geometrical ratio 2, 4, 8, 16, while, at best, food production tended to increase in arithmetical ration 2, 4, 6, 8. This must lead to ever greater discrepancies between the number of stomachs to be satisfied and the total production of the soil. His finished conclusions were published about the beginning of the nineteenth century. At that time, the world's population, as nearly as we can determine, was In perspective, the amazing thing is that while the ages and eons of time down to the year 1800 had accumulated only this number of people in the whole world, within the comparatively short time of a century, or by the year 1900, world population had more than doubled. What happened that people suddenly should increase so fast? Why did we add another world of people in a hundred years to that which we already had, regardless of the Malthusian doctrine? How did we feed them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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