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following have been the figures for the production of wheat 

 for every man, woman and child in a few leading coun- 

 tries: Canada 32 bushels, Argentina 25 bushels, Aus- 

 tralia 17.5 bushels, Rumania 14.5 bushels, Bulgaria 12.5 

 bushels, France 8 bushels, the United States 7.5 bushels, 

 and the United Kingdom 1.5 bushels.^ 



Canada is a most extravagant user of wheat. For seed 

 and other purposes she has used about 16.5 bushels per 

 capita or about half what she has produced. The next 

 countries making the freest use of wheat are : Argentina 

 11 bushels per capita, France 9.5 bushels, Italy and Aus- 

 tralia 7.5 bushels, and the United Kingdom 7 bushels.'^ 



Canada leads all other countries in the difference be- 

 tween her per capita production and consumption of wheat, 

 and this, combined with her vast wheat crops, puts her in 

 a very favorable position as a wheat-exporting country. 

 In 1913, the year before the war, when reliable statistics 

 could still be obtained for all countries, the exports of 

 wheat (including flour reduced to grain) from the twelve 

 most important countries were as follows : * 



Exports of Wheat in Bushels, 19 IS 



Bushels Bushels 



United States . . . 154,760,000 Eoumania 54,203,000 



Canada 151,975,000 Australia 53,207,000 



Eussia 130,596,000 Germany 29,638,000 



Argentina 109,637,000 Belgium 15,898,000 



Netherlands 64,501,000 Bulgaria 11,456,000 



British India 54,711,000 Austria-Hungary 1,730,000 



from which it is obvious that Canada stood second in the 



6V. C. Finch and 0. E. Baker, Geography of the World's Agri- 

 culture, Washington, 1917, figures read from the diagram in Fig. 

 11, p. 14. 



7 Ibid. 



8 Supplement to the Cereal Maps of Manitoba, etc., loc. cit., p. 14. 



