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shortage of supplies than that of the countries 

 on which we are at present relying for our beef 

 and mutton. 



The same is also true of our cereal production. 

 The statistics of foreign countries show that 

 there are only some three or four wheat-producing 

 countries which exceed the moderate average 

 of 20 bushels of wheat to the acre. As we have 

 already seen, with the exception of Canada, the 

 yield is considerably less in the chief sources 

 of supply. The conclusion with regard to 

 sheep and cattle, therefore, applies with equal 

 force to that of cereal production. Undoubtedly 

 an extension of cereal production at home is 

 the key to an increased output of meat and dairy 

 produce — given the incentive for the former, 

 the two latter must necessarily follow as a matter 

 of course. Crop rotation assures the growing 

 of at least one crop of wheat in the series, thus 

 an increased acreage under the plough means 

 an increase in wheat production, not grown only 

 for the profit of the one crop, but as part of the 

 system. The growing of sugar beet has been 

 urged as a means of bringing more land under 

 the plough, and has much to recommend it from 

 this standpoint. 



For the consumer, home-grown foodstuffs, 

 if forthcoming in adequate quantities, are more 

 desirable than imported supplies. They are 



