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wheat equal to ours ; and if that prove.s/ t;o 

 true, and when measures are completed 

 shall place it in this country, with profit to the 

 grower, at 33. 6d. a bushel, that margin will be 

 gone. We must then turn to articles which will 

 bear neither long storage nor carriage milk, 

 early wheat, vegetables, hay, straw, potatoes, 

 sugar beet, grass farms, dairying, and market 

 gardening. As the summer heat on those 

 north-western plains ripens barley and oats too 

 rapidly, there is still hope for them, and for 

 sheep, because there will be less pressure of 

 competition against them, and because the barley 

 and the sheep go well together. 



We must not deceive ourselves. A great 

 change in the agricultural position is impending. 

 The older States on the eastern seaboard of 

 America are rapidly going out of cultivation by 

 the competition of the richer virgin soils of the 

 west. That competition is nearer to our doors 

 now, by the cheapening of transport, than it was 

 to theirs twenty years ago. The time has come 

 when it must be promptly met, if we would 

 avoid the same fate. The control of the " dead 



