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million bushels would be grown in the following 

 year, thereby not only precluding the necessity 

 of imports, but also holding out the prospect of 

 exports to Southern Italy for the special purpose 

 of making macaroni. The Year Book of 1907 

 reports the fulfilment of this prophesy by the 

 export of 20 million bushels, two-thirds of which 

 is stated to have been sent to Mediterranean 

 ports. 



The vast changes that have been sketched in 

 this evolution of American agriculture have been 

 along the lines laid down by those, who in the 

 period of disorganised expansion during the 

 eighties realised the problems to be solved. 

 From the position of selling abroad whatever 

 it could market, the United States have come 

 to marketing abroad the surplus of abundant 

 seasons. That this change has had far-reaching 

 effects on the British farmer will appear when 

 we come to consider the different circumstances 

 under which our present supplies are produced. 



