WHEAT EXPORTERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 598, 28 August 1909, Page 5

WHEAT EXPORTERS.

THE UNITED STATES TO DROP OUT (By Tolcßcaph.-Preaa AisaclaUoo.—Cocyrljjbt) Ottawa, August 26. Speaking at a luncheon given by Lord Strathcona at Winnipeg, Mr. J. J Hill, the American railway, millionaire and president of the Great Northern, Railway, said that by--1915 the United States would cease to bp a grain. exporter. ;

CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION* o The gradual relimiliation ; of the'. United States from the rants of the wheat exporters has been foreshadowed by the editor of tho Mark Lane Express," who wrote: "The population of thoso- countries which subsist on bread large y increased : of ' late years, While, on tho other hand, there has been ho I increase in the production. Take, fpr instance, too United States of. American, which fifteen to twenty j;ears ago' sent Britain CO'per cent, of her toreign wheat. . Now wo find that the -demand--in America has so 'enormously i increased that, vrhijo tho quantity imported into this country :js greater .than 'ever ; it was, the proportion coming from the United States has tallen as lew. as dO to 40 per cent, of our total imports. .' / v . w certain that at no very.distant dato tho■ United Mates will require oil the wheat grown in that country to feed its own population, so .rapid is the-rato at which consumption is production. The enormo ua_ areas !of prairie land that yiolded wheat which could bo put on the British market at J!ss,: per quarter and leave'a good profit to the producor are becoming played l out, and it beoomes essential that <«' system of farming in rotation analogous to that in force in Lngland must bo followed in" order to maintain the fertility of the soil. Thus the cost of produotion is increased."'