Judge — May 23, 1925 — page 22: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a futuristic satire imagining urban agriculture in the year 2000. The cartoon depicts an impossibly tall tower building crammed onto a tiny city lot, with each level housing different farm operations: crops, livestock, dairy products, and vegetables stacked vertically. The humor satirizes the tension between growing urbanization and the need for food production. Signs advertise "Farm site on this roof for sale" and "Hoy for sale," suggesting developers are trying to monetize every inch of space. The absurdist solution—stacking a "twenty-acre farm on a twenty-foot lot"—mocks both urban overcrowding and optimistic technological predictions about solving space constraints. The cartoon likely dates from the early-to-mid 20th century, when such futuristic predictions were common in satirical publications.