portions of the world for a hunt. Also, in idle moments, he wails
regretfully at the passing of the "big game," which he knows in the
not distant future will disappear from the earth.

Nor since the day of the caveman has man's efficiency for food-
getting and shelter-getting diminished. It has increased a
thousandfold. Since the day of the caveman, matter has been
mastered. The secrets of matter have been discovered. Its laws have
been formulated. Wonderful artifices have been made, and marvellous
inventions, all tending to increase tremendously man's natural
efficiency of in every food-getting, shelter-getting exertion, in
farming, mining, manufacturing, transportation, and communication.

From the caveman to the hand-workers of three generations ago, the
increase in efficiency for food- and shelter-getting has been very
great. But in this day, by machinery, the efficiency of the hand-
worker of three generations ago has in turn been increased many
times. Formerly it required 200 hours of human labour to place 100
tons of ore on a railroad car. To-day, aided by machinery, but two
hours of human labour is required to do the same task. The United
States Bureau of Labour is responsible for the following table,
showing the comparatively recent increase in man's food- and shelter-
getting efficiency:

Machine Hand
Hours Hours
Barley (100 bushels) 9 211
Corn (50 bushels shelled, stalks, husks and
blades cut into fodder) 34 228
Oats (160 bushels) 28 265