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Conclusions 



It is wrong as well as useless to ask 

 the English farmer to produce wheat for 

 the nation at an unremunerative price. In 

 France the farmers have a remunerative 

 price guaranteed to them, with the result that 

 in average years they produce ^100,000,000 

 worth of wheat within the country, as com- 

 pared with ^12,000,000 worth grown in 

 England. The price of wheat during the last 

 hundred years has fluctuated far less in 

 France than it has in England, even since the 

 introduction of Free Trade. That the country 

 at large has not suffered by this policy, and 

 that the poorer classes in France have not 

 been obliged to curtail their ration of bread, 

 is proved by the fact that the consumption 

 of wheat bread in France is higher per 

 head than in the United Kingdom, the 

 figures being 358 in the United Kingdom, 

 and 486 (pounds per head per annum) in 

 France. From the point of view of defence 

 France is independent of sea-borne wheat. 

 From the economic point of view that 

 ;^ 1 00,000,000 worth of home-produced wheat 

 has to be paid for by ;^ 100,000,000 worth of 

 home-manufactured goods. 



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