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work. As to actual profit, in proportion to labor and money expended, it may, 

 or it may not, equal a similar expenditure in the west. 



These tables teach, not only the value of liome markets, but show how ex- 

 cessive charges for transportation are eating out the substance of the west, reducing 

 home prices and farmers' profits, and consigning coi'n to the grate or furnace. 

 It should teach the west to diversify its industry, and divert labor from wheat- 

 growing to industries Avhich make light products. It should teach the west to 

 consume its own wheat and corn, as far as possible, and save to its soil the ele- 

 ments of its fertility that are now wasted in the rivers of the east and of 

 Europe, 



The cost of transportation is in part the cause of the following receding scale 

 of values, from east to west : 



Nor is the difference due to yield, notwithstanding the fertilizers and the labor 

 employed in the east, as is seen : 



These differences scarcely exist as to barley, for which the market is much 

 the same in different sections. It is, moreover, a minor crop. 



