CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



den raise half enough wheat. The Swiss can 

 get no more from their valley-farms than will 

 feed them for ten weeks. And the peasants of 

 Russia and Roumania, who raise wheat in 

 abundance, have unfortunately not yet risen to 

 that luxurious level of life in which white bread 

 is the e very-day food of the people. Although 

 Russia has more w^heat to sell than any other 

 nation, a Russian eats one-third as much wheat 

 as a Belgian, and there is a famine somewhere 

 in the vast Russian Empire almost every winter. 

 Africa is not yet a wheat-eating continent. 

 Egypt, which was, in the Golden Age of the 

 Pharaohs, the wheat-centre of the world, now 

 grows less grain than Oregon; Algeria raises less 

 than Ohio; and Tunis, from the fields that sur- 

 round the ruins of ancient Carthage, produces 

 less grain than Tennessee. India is slowly 

 shifting from rice to wheat. Many of the fields 

 that once grew indigo are now yellow with 

 grain. At present India is the most uncertain 

 factor in the situation, as it may have eighty 

 million bushels to sell or none. As it is one- 

 third as large as the United States, and crowded 



