HIS LIFE AND WORK 



his bread in the first ten minutes, every work day 

 morning. And the total tax he pays to the men 

 who make the self-binders is not more than one 

 tenth of a cent per loaf. 



Three-sevenths of the people of the world are 

 now on a wheat basis. They are the lesser 

 fraction in point of numbers, but the larger in 

 point of prosperity and progress. A wheat 

 map of the globe would be very nearly a map of 

 modern civilization. As yet, there are many 

 peasants who gro\v wheat and cannot afford to 

 eat it. But the number of bread-eaters is stead- 

 ily increasing, probably at the rate of four or 

 five million a year. 



The nation that eats most bread per capita 

 is Belgium. After her come France, England, 

 and the United States. As the Belgians, with 

 their scanty acres, cannot grow more wheat than 

 would support them for nine weeks, they are 

 compelled to import nearly fifty million bushels 

 a year; and it is this continual influx of grain 

 that has done most to make Antwerp the third 

 busiest port in the world and the home of forty 

 steamship lines. 



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