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greatest distance, viz., on the plains of Dakota." Wheat 

 may be raised in Middlesex at an actual cost not exceeding 

 two shillings per bushel ; but the Middlesex farmer will not, 

 on that account, sell his wheat below the market price, say 

 six shillings (four shillings), which price is fixed, as we have 

 seen, by the wheat from America. The difference, four 

 shillings (two shillings?) is to be profit for somebody; and 

 we will now proceed to show * that this body must be" either 

 the landlord or the tenant, not the agricultural labourer, and 

 not the consumer of flour." 



* As he afterwards does— p. 202. 



To give a more explicit illustration of the probable effects 

 of an increase in nominal rate of wages and of the process by 

 which any increase in wages must fall upon consumers, and 

 not upon rent of landlord, or the profit of the capitalist or 

 entrepreneur— the following table is drawn up. And to 

 throw further light upon the matter, let the points be dis- 

 cussed as if in diaologue between three persons, representing 

 — landlord, builder and workman. 



