FREIGHTS AND PRICKS no 



Dealing with the cost of wheat transportation 

 the falling off in American exports, and, con 

 sequently, the larger proportion of our wheat 

 supplies reaching us from more distant sources 

 of supply, is a factor which may, at any time, 

 have an important effect on prices. An article 

 appearing in the United States Agricultural Year 

 Book of 1906 discussed this question. The mean 

 annual freights from different wheat exporters 

 to the United Kingdom was given as follows : 



Price per 

 Bushel. 

 From Canada . . . . . . 2d. 



,, U.S.A., Atlantic and other 



Ports . . . . . . 2|d. 



,, Russia and Black Sea Ports 3M. 

 ,, Roumania . . . . . . 3^-d. 



,, India . . . . . . 4|d. 



,, Argentina . . . . . . 5 Id 



,, Australia . . . . . . yd. 



„ U.S.A. Pacific Ports . . 8£d. 



It is obvious that the total cost of sea freight 

 of Europe's wheat imports, at the moment the 

 previous inland freight is not under consideration, 

 must have considerably increased as a result 

 of the larger quantities coming from Argen- 

 tina and other distant sources of supply. The 

 point to determine is to what degree the price 



