Note 3 — Chapter III · THE NORTH AMERICAN PERIL
Bernard Miall translation
The Mexican sociologist, F. Bulnes, writes in his book, L'Avenir des nations Hispano-Americaines: "It is more than probable that by 1980 the United States will hold a population of 250,000,000 inhabitants. They will then scarcely be sufficient for the needs of this population, and will no longer be able to supply the world with the vast quantity of cereals which they supply to-day. They will therefore have to choose between a recourse to the methods of intensive culture and the conquest of the extra-tropical lands of Latin America, which are fitted, by their conditions, to the easy and inexpensive production of excellent cereals."