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time all efforts in this direction have been of 

 no avail. 



" The dealers of Europe have become weary 

 of protesting any longer against the American 

 way of doing business in this line, and are now 

 ready to join hands in insisting in getting what 

 they bargain and pay for. They demand a 

 square deal, and they ought to get it. In view 

 of the large bumper crop of corn, which is 

 now being garnered in, to be offered for sale 

 in the markets at home and abroad, it would 

 be well for our home dealers to be prepared 

 for a change in the methods of selling Ameri- 

 can corn to foreigners, and to make up their 

 minds that it will be to their interest to ship 

 no corn across the ocean except it be fully 

 ripe, fully dry, and well protected while in 

 transit." 



But, notwithstanding lapses, the extent of 

 our export trade, during the period to which 

 this volume is devoted, shows that our expor- 

 ters have profited by their experiences. When 

 one considers the elements in this progress, and 

 the sweep of agriculture in America, still far 

 from its meridian, one must be convinced that 

 our sales abroad, enormous as they now seem, 



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