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present level unless exceptionally good harvests 

 occur simultaneously. Prices at the moment are 

 not sumcienly high in themselves to stimulate 

 production, except where high yields and low cost 

 of production are possible. Where wheat is 

 Hobson's choice it will be grown. When alterna- 

 tive uses for land become possible, it will tend to 

 diminish till the more advanced stage of mixed 

 farming and crop rotation obtains. 



N.B. — Xo mention has been made of the difference in 

 quality of wheat, as the subject is somewhat outside the 

 scope of this book. 



