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whole duty ou them — be anything like as much 

 as what he will save in his corn and cake bills. 

 Even, therefore, supposing he makes no more 

 money from the live stock which he sells (to say 

 nothing of his other sales), he will be better off 

 at the end of the year from the fact that he has 

 fed his stock at a less cost. It is no small advan- 

 tage to be able to say that; but it is a special 

 satisfaction for us to be able to state that the 

 small man will benefit even more proportionately 

 to his holding with his varied crops. 



Cost of Living. 



There is only one other aspect — apart from the 

 Imperial aspect — which needs for the moment 

 consideration here, and that is, whether the cost 

 of living to the large or small farmer, to the 

 allotment holder, or to the agricultural labourer 

 who has no allotment at all, will or will not be 

 increased. Canada alone has over 300 million 

 acres of the finest wheat-growing land in the 

 v/orld. The quantity of wheat required by the 

 United Kingdom is 200 million bushels annually. 

 If we assume that only 20 bushels per acre could 

 be grown on the 300 million acres referred to 

 (as against our 30 to 33 bushels per acre), then 

 it follows that Canada alone could produce wheat 

 sufficient to feed not only our existing population 

 but a population thirty times as great as that now 

 inhabiting the United Kingdom. Those who 

 oppose Mr. Chamberlain never enlighten the elec- 

 tors on a fact such as this, vi-hen they talk about 



