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Wheat, the value of which in 1909 at 
our farms was $725,000,000, is widely 
grown over the whole world, and the 
crop in this country is only one fifth 
of the total production. Russia, which 
follows us closely, has about double the 
erop of France, which is nearly equaled 
by that of British India. It is a euri- 
ous fact that we export more wheat 
than corn, and that the exports of corn 
have been decreasing. 
gentina are large producers of wheat 


Canada and Ar- 
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in proportion to their populations and 
are consequently large exporters, Only 
two per cent. of the area of this coun- 
try is given to wheat, while the per- 
centage is as high as 12 in France and 
Hungary and still higher in Italy and 
Xoumania. As shown on the charts. 
the production of wheat in this coun- 
try has more than doubled in a period 
of forty years. Kansas and Minnesota 
are the states now in the lead. New 

