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Asia embraces Japan, Siberia, China, India, Turkey-in-Asia, 

 Arabia, and numerous islands, including the Philippines. 

 India holds third place among the wheat producing coun- 

 tries of the world, with a crop of 368,000,000 bushels. !fi 

 Modern methods and modern machines have not yet been 

 introduced to any measurable extent, and as soon as they 

 are, India will become a considerable factor in commerce. 

 It may be interesting to note in passing that the first blast 

 furnace in India has just begun operations, and steel rails 

 are now being produced. This means much for the Orient. !fi 

 China grows little wheat outside of Manchuria, which gives 

 some promise of becoming an important wheat growing 

 country. Neither wheat nor flour is imported to any extent, 

 and so far as can be judged at this time, China will not soon 

 become a wheat-eating country. S Japan produces about 

 24,000.000 bushels of wheat yearly, having more than 

 1 ,000,000 acres growing this cereal. While the total 

 area of Japan is nearly 100,000,000 acres, only about 

 I 5,000,000 acres are under cultivation, and the island 

 is of nnuch interest to us because of the increasing 

 volume of its imports of American wheat and 

 flour shipped from the Pacific Coast States. 

 Asia will inevitably become a larger market 

 for American and European 

 manufactures. 



