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Industrial 



Flour 6,200,000 



Glucose and starch 1,000,000 



Distilleries 500,000 



As malt 400,000 



Fodder in cities . . T . . . 3,000,000- 



Exportation 1,100,000 



Other uses 700,000 



Total 12,900,000 



Grand total ....... 70,200,000 



which is the average annual crop. 



THE STATE AS UNIVERSAL CONSIGNEE. 



In regard to the proposal of the Commission that the 

 State should undertake the task of receiving and dispos-' 

 ing of the cereals which the farmer himself was unable to 

 dispose of remuneratively, it was undoubtedly based on 

 the reports of the success of a similar plan in Canada. 



But it was overlooked that the s \peri- 



ment there lay not in disposing of the crop at home, 

 but abroad. En order to sell the crop the S^ate must 

 possess certain busii uite apart from the 



fact that able negotiators must push the sale of the crop 

 before even the beginning of the h;t: ; there must 



exist all the customary trade facilities, and more besides, 

 if the undertaking is of the nature of salvaging the 

 country's products from disaster. 



Chief among the measures essential to success to a 

 plan of vast undertaking are those concerned with the 

 financing, the transport, and the delivery of the goods. 



STATE INTERVENTION IN THE SALE 

 OF OUR HARVEST. 



If we were to believe the commission in 1917 the 

 most practical way of disposing of our crop unsold 

 that year was to confide in State intervention once more. 



As was pointed Out at the time the project of the 

 State undertaking, the sale of the crops at home was im- 

 possible, but equally if not more so, was it to attempt 

 the sale direct abroad. 



There existed neither the necessary facilities nor the 

 essential experienced body of co-adjutors. 



This was the opinion of the Government. Another 

 plan was adopted. 



Sale direct by the State to the consumer was aban- 

 doned as impractical, most wisely. 



