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132 million acres, while Texas contains 237,321 square 

 miles, or 154 million acres. And yet the product of 

 -wheat in France, in the year 1868, was 350 million 

 'bushels, the total product of wheat in the United States 

 for the same year was only about 240 million. 



So far from our supplying the markets of the world 

 with wheat, in the year 1867, Ave sent to England only 

 four million hundred weight of wheat, or about nine 

 ■million of dollars in value, while France exported to 

 l^ngland eleven million dollars worth of butter alone, to 

 spread on the bread made from our wheat, or, to speak 

 less lightly, France sent more value in butter to Eng- 

 land than we did all kinds of breadstuffs. 



Again, to go 1)ack to the year 1860, Avhere only we 

 flcan get accurate statistics of the products of the United 

 States and the products of France, let me call your at- 

 tention to the following remarkable but reliable statistics 

 of French agriculture. France then produced 230 mil- 

 lion bushels of oats against our 170 milllion ; 70 million 

 bushels of rye against our 20 million ; 60 million bush- 

 els of barley against our 12 million ; and 32 million 

 bushels of buckwheat against our 12 million. Nor was 

 islie without the products of grazing and pasture land, 

 which are supposed to be the necessity requiring our 

 extended farms. She had 4 million horses and mules 

 against our 4 million and a quarter; 12 million of neat 

 cattle against our 13 million; 30 million of sheep against 

 our 24 million, and 6 million of swine against our 16 

 million. 



As an exami)le of what may be the profits of the 

 smaller industries of farming, which, by the farmers of 

 h e United States, are reckoned almost valueless, it is an 



