690 TRANSACTIONS OF SUB-SECTION Kk. 
Acreage of Wheat in million acres. 
| osseiat United H Argen- | A lig nk 
| Russian , in EKuro- nited | un- | Argen- | Aus- | Can- | whic 
Year | Empire | pean | States — Erempey gary | tina tralasia ada in 
| Russia | | N-W. 
1884) <== 28:9 B96 ile 17:4: 2) 68 0°6 3:8 | 24 = 
1885 = = 34:94) 17:2. 16:8 = — = aoe 
1886 = = 36:8 172 | 5:8 = — = = 
1887 a = 37°6 17:2) |) 73 — = = =e 
1888 = 306 37:3 17-2 = = = = == 
196 |e a6 38:1 he Se 38 | eat ae 
1890 ee == 361 17-4 = = 3:7 2s = 
1891 = == 39°9 14:2 79 — 34 | 27 — 
1892 oe 326 | 386 | 17:3 | 81 3:3 37 == 
1893 = 32-4 34-4 175 | 86 == || 140 hs 2a = 
1894 | 41°6 329 | 34:9 17237 |8'5 le) == LO == == 
1895 | 42:2 31:9 34:0 173 | 83 | 51 | 36 == = 
1896 | 45:9 34:8 34:6 17-0) 48°33) A= AO = se 
1897 | 46:7 356 | 38:5 163 | 7:4 Se aa == < 
1898 | 47:0 360 | 441 | 172 | 82 =e b] fo = = 
1899 | 49:7 380 | 446 | 171 | 84 | — | 59 = = 
1900 | 52:3 400 | 42:5 170 | 88 = C:Or er 125 
1901 | 54:3 4-9 | 49:9 168 | 89 | 83 | 56 4:2 = 
1902 | 55-1 426 | 462 162 | 89 3 a | 
1903 57-2 43:8 | 49°5 160 | 9:2 pile tere == = 
1904 | 59-2 456 | 44-1 HET ool If LOT | eb:85 es) a == 
1905 | 62:2 481 | 47-9 16°1 92 121 | 65 236 
1906 636 490 | 47°3 16°1 95 | 140 | 63 =e Il 
1907 | 60:0 45:5 45-2 16:3 |...8:6.9j PAST bee 61 = 
19098 — = 47-6 16:1 85 | 142 | 56 | 66 56 
importance to the data of single years, the quinquennial average movement 
in the States over the whole of the last forty years may be summarised as 
under :— 
Five-year Periods , Acreage in U.S.A. Distinctive Wheat Acreage Levels 
acres 
1868-72 19,500,000 : . 
1873-77 25,500,000 \ Extending rapidly up to 1880 
1878-82 35,500,000 ; 
1883-87 37,000,000 Nearly stationary from 1880 to 1896 
1888-92 38,000,000 
1893-97 35,500,000 Again extending to maxima reached in 
1898-1902 45,500,000 1901 and 19038, with a later slight 
1903-1907 46,800,000 decline in the latest years 
Population in the States has, of course, augmented steadily all over the 
forty years, from 37,000,000 to 86,000,000, yet all through the stationary 
years, as well as those of advancing acreage, exports of wheat and flour con- 
tinued—as much as a third of the crop being shipped abroad in some years— 
and the transfer of the wheat lands north-westward in the States was 
doubtless the striking feature of the recovery. Rightly to understand the 
revolution in the wheat-growing of certain States of the Union would 
require a treatise for which time could not be given here. 
Let me, however, recur again to the general position. In the table already 
given for the past decade the latest increase to be accounted for is 34,000,000 
acres. I ask you to note that the Russian quota forms more than a third of 
the whole. Now it was Russia that was in a very special degree the subject 
of unfavourable remark in the wheat problem controversy of ten years ago. 
