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THE GRAIN TRADE 



World's Wheat Harvest; Where and When Harvested; Quantity (In Bushels) 



It is usual to rank cotton as second in value, considered from the 

 standpoint of the farm value of the crop; on this basis hay is third 

 and wheat is fourth; oats are fifth. 



The brief table presented below shows the farm values for ten 

 years of the five leading farm crops. 



Corn from the marketing standpoint lacks the importance of 

 wheat, since it does not figure largely in our exports, and since it 

 is so largely consumed on the farm. Wheat of necessity must 

 largely leave the farmers' hands. And although many writers 

 and speakers have been announcing yearly, since 1870, that we 

 are approaching a wheat famine, that we have at last arrived at 



