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sent from Russia to Denmark and Holland is 

 another instance of the same kind. 



The demand for dairy and meat products in 

 Europe and the falling off of American maize 

 shipments have stimulated the production of 

 feeding-stuffs in other countries. Exports of 

 maize, oats, barley, beans, linseed, peas, cake, 

 cotton and rape seed from Argentina, India and 

 Russia have been on a large scale. We have 

 already noticed that the production of feeding- 

 stuffs is one of the alternatives open to agri- 

 culturists in most countries. With higher prices 

 ruling for meat and dairy produce it must be 

 expected that the growing demand for feeding- 

 stuffs will tend to curtail wheat growing abroad. 



The official statistics relating to brewing and 

 distilling show the large quantities of malt and 

 corn employed. Though the malt and corn used 

 in breweries has diminished some seven million 

 bushels since 1899, the returns for 1911 show that 

 fifty-one million bushels were employed in addi- 

 tion to some fourteen million bushels used for 

 distilling. Brewers' grains are largely used as a 

 feeding-stuff for dairy cows. The practice of 

 dr} 7 ing grains by a new process has made these 

 bi-products of the breweries more easy of con- 

 veyance, thus opening out a wider market. The 

 imports of feeding-stuffs should not make us lose 

 sight of the serious disadvantage to which the 



