Excerpt from the Introduction: The purpose of this study is to show the geographic origin of the world’s supply of food and of other important agricultural products and to indicate briefly the climatic, soil, and economic conditions that account for the distribution of the crops and live stock of the world. It is impossible within the narrow limits of space available to do more than describe in the most elementary manner where the crops and live stock are produced, and mention a few of the factors which have determined the development of the world’s agriculture. It is hoped the material presented will help the reader to make a study of the competition that America has to meet in the world’s markets and will show for what crops it depends on foreign countries.