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OUR EXPORTS OF POTATOES. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OUR EXPORTS OF POTATOES. 



fact that farmers obtain better prices for their produce 

 A. under the system of Protection to home industry than they do 

 under the system of partial Free Trade finds additional confirma- 

 tion at every succeeding step of inquiry into the subject. Whether 

 we take the cereals, which are cultivated so extensively, and pro- 

 duced in such vast quantities, or resort to the minor crops, for ex- 

 amples, this important and instructive fact is equally established 

 by the investigation. Let us illustrate the case with potatoes. 

 Here are the exports for the last twenty-six years, with the average 

 price per bushel in each year. 



Here we have, for the Protective period, an increase of 1 193/2 

 per cent, in aggregate quantity, of 136 per cent, in aggregate value, 

 and of 24 per cent, in average price per bushel of total, showing a 



