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Tlie country importing tha largest quantity of foreign wheat is 

 Great Britain. In 186 t Russia supplied 41 per cent, of this quantity, 

 and the United States 21 per cent. By 1874 the United States had 

 taken Russia's place, and by 1884 Russia had been shoved aside by 

 India, with Australia pushing hard for third place. 



The United States' wheat crop for 1884 amounted to over five 

 hundred millions of bushels, but it is not likely that it will ever again 

 have so large a surplus for export. On the contrary, owing to the 

 unprofitableness of wheat growing in the Middle and Southern States, 

 the increase of population, and the gradual and inevitable exhaustion 

 of the soil, there is every probability that the quantity exported will 

 show a deci-ease each succeeding year. 



Great Britain's colonies and dependencies are now rising from a 

 position of dependence to one of support ; and before another decade 

 has passed away the country we call our home will, by the pi'oduction 

 of wheat in its great North-west, occupy the foremost place in that 

 Greater Britain that is to be. 



