CONTENTS. xv 



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Wheat Growers Stimulus given to American 

 Agriculture by Unfavourable Seasons in Western 

 Europe Comparative Produce of United States 

 with that of England and France The Great 

 North- West Wheat Belt of Canada Reduction 

 of the Cost of Transport of Grain And its 

 probable Effect on Home Produce Scientific 

 Appliances which Minimize the Cost and Lessen 

 the Risk of Distant Carriage Applicable also to 

 Meat and Provisions The Prairie Land Fresh 

 and Unexhausted Americans expect to be able 

 to Control European Markets Visit of British 

 Farm Delegates to Manitoba Their Opinion 

 of its High Fertility Wheat expected to be 

 placed in this Country at 35. 6d. a Bushel 

 Articles to which we must turn our Attention 

 Urgency of Removal of all Legal Restraints 

 that impede Home Production 157 175 



APPENDIX. 



Table showing Rent, Prices, Wages, and Produce 



in three periods during the last hundred years ... 177 



Table showing Acreage of Crops and Number of 

 Live-stock in the United Kingdom, in each 

 year since 1867 178 



Table showing Quantities and Value of Foreign 

 Grain and Live Stock, and Provisions imported, 

 in each of the last twenty years ... ... ... 179 



