Honolulu, Feb. 3.
Dr. 0. E. Baker, of the U.S. Department' of Agriculture, "has used statistics on Chinese ' area, topography, climate and population to make a comparative estimate of available agricultural lands in China and the United States of and has filed his data here Institute of Pacific Re-
"Nearly half of the 2,400,000,000 acres of land in the Chinese Re-
Public (excluding Thibet) is too arid for crop production," he says.
"About 5 per cent. of the remaining half (53. per cent.), which receives sufficient rainfall, is *too cold. Probably 40 per cent. of the remaining 48 per cent, climatically suitable is too mountainous or rough, while 6 per cent. of the remainder is probably too sandy.
"This leaves only about 29 per cent. of the land aren of the Chijnese_Republic physically available for the production of crops. the United States the*corresponding proportion is 61 per cent.
"China has, therefore, about 28 per cent. less land physically available for crops than the United States, i.e, about 700,000,000 acres as compared with about 975,000,000 acres." But as China has " population 280 percent, greater, the area of land on which it is physically possible to grow eropiis at present 1.6 eres per person in China and
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