CHAPTER II. 



THE HOME MARKETS FURTHER CONSIDERED. 



It is claimed for protective legislation, that by stimu- 

 lating the growth of home industries, and the creation of 

 home markets for the products of the soil, a stop is put 

 to the export of the extractive industries ' of the coun- 

 try. That a tremendous waste is continually going on in 

 the consumption of farm products, through their practical 

 annihilation, at least for the time, as agents of reproduc- 

 tion, is very apparent. The waste is taking place at 

 home, in every city of America. From all over the 

 Union food products find their way to the New York 

 market, are consumed, and the principal part of their 

 fertilizing properties, in the change, flows to the ocean. 

 Probably hundreds of tons of beef are transported from 

 the country to that city each week, and but a trifling part 

 finds its way back again to the country.^ 



The products of the extractive industries are continu- 

 ally being shipped between nations, and protective legis- 

 lation is powerless to prevent it. Since Great Britain 

 adopted a free-trade policy, other countries have cease- 

 lessly poured into the ports of that country the products 



' Agriculture is not properly an extractive industry. 



^ The city of Brooklyn alone expends ninety thousand dollars annu- 

 ally in carrying off to the ocean the kitchen garbage, to say nothing of 

 what goes in the sewers. 



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