" The Home Market is first in order and 

 paramount in importance." 



HENRY CLAY. 



HOME MARKET 



POLITICIANS are continually preaching about the 

 importance of the Home Market, but very few of 

 them realize what it means, and none of them 

 make any practical suggestion for securing it. The 

 expenditure of the money receipts for the produce 

 of the soil of our country constitutes the Home 

 Market. The following Tables show the value of 

 the principal articles of food imported in the year 

 1913:- 



GRAIN AND FLOUR 



Wheat 43,849,173 



Barley 8,077,100 



Oats 5,671,957 



Wheat meal and flour . . . 6,347,771 



Shredded wheat .... 30,901 



Barley meal and flour . . . 478 



Oatmeal 248,143 



Groats 13,626 



Rolled oats (including Quaker oats) . 345,992 



Peas and beans .... 1,574,924 



Lentils 76,926 



66,236,991 

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