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perhaps aid those who are disposed to make a closer study of the figures. 
That study may not improbably suggest that in the very latest years—for I 
have carried the diagram to 1908 where I can—we may be once again 
nearing another check, or temporary halt, in the course of wheat extension, 
such as that which puzzled inquirers more than ten years ago, but which 
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wanted under the stimulus of better prices. The further leap of prices in 
1909 to beyond the 40s. limit in England may effectively encourage extension. 
The exceptional arrest of wheat-growing in the United States between 
the years 1880-1896, when—if we may accept the official statistics as actually 
representing fact—the rapid rise, which actually doubled the wheat acreage 
between 1870 to 1880, stopped altogether, was, I believe, the preponderating 
factor which suggested a general halt in wheat-growing. It should therefore 
be looked at more closely, and to get rid of the danger of attaching too much 
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