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government, all these influences must contribute to increasing very 

 greatly Russia's annual crop yields. 



The thoughtful student who aspires to be a real agricultural 

 statesman must consider world conditions in agriculture. Three 

 of our chief competitors in the world's agricultural commerce have 

 been named. Our real and potential competitors are many, and 

 can best be shown by means of a brief statistical table, showing 



FIG. 89. Transportation in Russia. 



for each such country its total area, its productive land, and the 



present ai ea of its cultivated land. Such a table is presented below : 



Total Area and Agricultural Land in Various Countries. 



NOTE. By comparing the productive land (30.5) with the cultivated land (8.7) we 

 find that but 28.5 per cent of the usable land is now cultivated. 



