The productivity of these people may be exemplified by the following reports: “Mr. Mulhall, in the ‘North American Review,’ for June, 1895, says: “An ordinary farm-hand in the United States raises as much grain as three in England, four in France, five in Germany, or six in [SN: PRODUCTIVITY OF FARMERS.] Austria, which shows what an enormous waste of labor occurs in Europe, because farmers are not possessed of the same mechanical appliances as in the United States.” (Enc. of Soc. Ref. p. 1093.) “Mr. Edward Atkinson gives the following statements on the industrial productivity of the United States.” He says: “One thousand barrels of flour, the annual ration of 1,000 people, can be placed in the city of New York from a point 1,700 or [SN: 7 PERSONS SERVE 1,000 WITH BREAD.] 2,000 miles distant with the exertion of human labor equivalent to that of only four men, working one year in producing, milling and moving the wheat. It can then be baked and distributed by the work of three more persons, so that seven persons serve 1,000 with bread.”[73] “The average crop of wheat in the United States and Canada would give one person in every 20 of the population of the globe a [SN: ENOUGH TO FEED THE WORLD.] barrel of flour in each year, with enough to spare for seed. The land capable of producing wheat is not occupied to anything like one-twentieth of its extent. We can raise grain enough on a small part of territory of the United States to feed the world.”[74] “The general conclusion at which I have arrived is that in the year 1880, the census year, [SN: GROSS INCOME IN YEAR 1880.] when the population of the United States numbered a little over 50,000,000, the annual product had a value of nearly, or quite $10,000,000,000 at points of final consumption, including, at market prices, that portion which was consumed upon the farm, but which was never sold. Omitting that consumed upon the farm, it was about $9,000,000,000.”[75] “At an average of 200 pounds per head in the United States, the largest consumption of iron of [SN: ONE OPERATOR SERVES HUNDREDS WITH GOODS.] any nation, we may yet find that the equivalent of one man’s work for one year, divided between the coal-mine, the iron-mine and the iron-furnace, suffices for the supply of 500 persons. One operator in the cotton factory makes cloth for 250; in the woolen factory for 300; one modern cobbler (who is anything but a cobbler), working in a boot or shoe factory, furnishes 1,000 men or more than 1,000 women with all the boots and shoes they require for a year.”[76] These paragraphs sufficiently indicate the general capability of the American people for production under the existing conditions.