16 THE AGRICULTURAL BLOC 



to the consumer for $1.50. The American 

 farmer gets 70 cents for his bushel of 

 wheat; the American baker retails that 

 bushel of wheat in the form of bread for 

 $3.00. Between the English farmer's price 

 and the consumer of the bread there is 

 50 cents per bushel. Between the American 

 farmer's price and the consumer of the 

 bread there is $2.30 per bushel. This dif- 

 ference to a certain extent corresponds to 

 the inequality of the land values in city and 

 country in the two countries. 



England's wealth is in her lands. She 

 sends her ships to the remotest corners of 

 the earth for all the fertihzer she can pro- 

 cure. We are forcing our farmers in a 

 great measure to reduce our lands to pov- 

 erty, and it behooves us to see that this 

 wasteful method stops before it is too late, 

 or before we reach the 200,000,000 popula- 

 tion mark we may be confronted with fam- 

 ine. Our lands should be owned by intelli- 

 gent and scientific agriculturists and not 

 mere tillers of the soil. Of the thousands 

 of young men who are educated in our 

 Agricultural Colleges a very small per cent 

 ever return to the farm ; the inducements of- 

 fered elsewhere are better. With an export 

 bounty of 25 cents per bushel on wheat this 

 would change. I have traveled all over the 

 world and one of the most beautiful sights 

 I have seen is in the city of Portland — to 

 see the Jewish people riding in the finest 



