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We export only 200,000,000 bushels of 

 wheat, which at 25 cents export bounty- 

 would only cost the Federal Government 

 $50,000,000, or just one-third of the amount 

 paid in pensions to the war veterans. Yet 

 it would accrue an addition of $3,000,000,000 

 of trade to our own people, a sum more than 

 equal to the amount of all our foreign im- 

 port and export trade. 



We owe it to our country's welfare to see 

 that this just relief is granted the American 

 farmer, as under present conditions we are 

 reducing our country to a barren waste as 

 fast as we possibly can, as there are whole 

 counties of abandoned farms in some of our 

 once best agricultural states, but under the 

 fostering care and protection our lands 

 would receive, if the needed relief was 

 granted the farmer, our lands would be in- 

 creased in value threefold, which would 

 mean added wealth to our nation that would 

 reach into several billions of dollars. 



In comparing values here and in England 

 we may get a good idea. In the city of New 

 York land value that is worth $1000 a foot 

 frontage, the same kind of property in the 

 city of London is only worth $400 per foot 

 frontage. Agricultural land that here is 

 worth $50 per acre, in England is worth 

 $150 per acre. 



The English farmer gets $1.00 for a 

 bushel of wheat. The English baker retails 

 that bushel of wheat in the form of bread 



