Betty B.
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are not very much better.
Much of the soil of these colonies is in such a poor condition and occupied by such semi-civilized and mixed peoples, black, brown, and yellow, that I should not like to see Uncle Sam take them over in lieu of his mortgage.
Besides, they are scattered far and wide over the world, with stormy oceans between.
It is different with this France from where I am writing.
Indeed, if the gods should order a cannibal feast and served up all Mother Earth
As the pièce de résistance, France would be the best slice of the tenderloin roast.
She is protein all the way through.
Or, if I may be allowed to change the figure, she is one of the great clots of cream on the skim milk of the globe.
Moreover, her position is such that the cream can be taken and made to bring easy money.
Situated here at the crossroads of Europe, with England just over the way, and perhaps soon to be joined to her by a tunnel under the Channel,
with Holland, Belgium, Scandinavia, and Germany as northern customers, and with Switzerland, Italy, and Spain ready to buy at the south, France is besides only six days from America over the main traveled ocean highways.
And now, let us test the cream for the butterfat it contains.
It is so rich that I could fill a chapter of this book in describing each globule.
With the new territory she got by the Treaty of Versailles, France obtained more coal
iron and water power her citizens are of the thriftiest and most industrious of the human race the soil of france is so fertile and so well farmed that it has been feeding the people since julius caesar invaded gaul germany and england are dependent on their imports of foodstuffs from abroad and to-day the british are really spoon-fed by us if the new world stopped her supplies of bread and meat for three months the fat body of john bull would shrink to a shadow
Before the war, France raised 94% of her oats and about all of her sugar.
Within a few years after the war, her yield of wheat per acre was the highest ever noted in the country, and the crop was much better than the average annual production just preceding the German invasion.
Another important item in figuring the value of the French obligations to us is the thrift of the people.
There is no nation that gets more out of its soil.
the french lead the world as good farmers every crop they produce grows more to the acre than is grown on land of the same character in any part of the united states where our farmers average only fourteen bushels of wheat the united states over the french raise twenty bushels on land that is no richer not a square inch goes uncultivated i rode two hundred miles yesterday and i could number on my fingers and toes the fences i passed
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