422 FOREIGN COMPETITION 



QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT 



1. Describe in full the transition in English agriculture in the period follow- 



ing 1870. Same for Denmark (p. 423). 



2. What suggestions, if any, for the United States, in the problems presented 



and methods used in this period in England ? 



3. Show what competitive conditions now face the United States. 



4. Explain the principle of "comparative costs." 



5. Show the changes in our foreign trade since 1880, and state their significance. 



6. Discuss Argentina as a competitor: area; climate; population; crops; live 



stock; exports. 



7. In a similar way discuss Canada. 



8. In a similar way discuss Russia. 



9. The productive land of the world is what per cent of the total land acreage? 



The cultivated land constitutes what per cent of the productive land? 



QUESTIONS SUGGESTED BY THE TEXT 



1. Prepare a chart or graph showing the world's cotton production, also 



cotton production of United States, Egypt, and India. 



2. Prepare a table showing wheat acreage and yields for a series of years in 



the United States, Argentina, Canada, Russia, Australia, India, the 

 Balkan States, France. 



3. What should be the policy of our government in using a protective tariff 



on imports of foreign agricultural products, such as corn from Argen- 

 tina, hay from Canada, beans from Manchuria, citrus fruit from Spain 

 and Italy, etc.? 



4. Debate. Resolved, that each country should devote itself to the produc- 



tion of those commodities in which it has special advantages, and there 

 should be free interchange of all products. 



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