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Why do the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy import so much wheat ?
Why does Japan, with a third more people than the United Kingdom,
import only a fraction as much wheat ?
Compare the yield per acre in importing and exporting countries. Why
do the importers need wheat when the yield from their own farms is so
high? Why is it so high?
Rearrange all the countries in the wheat tables given above, according to
the amount of wheat produced per acre. Be ready to ask a good question
as to the position of each country in this new list. |
How do you explain the fact that India exports far less wheat than Canada,
though she raises almost as much ?
Why does Australia export less than Canada and Argentina?
Although Russia raises much wheat, her people eat relatively little. In
which part of Russia is wheat chiefly eaten? Why? (Fig. 43.)

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C. How the scientific farmer reaps his reward.
I. The average yield of corn per acre among the farmers of the United States
is about 27 bushels; among the Connecticut farmers, it is about 80 per
cent greater ; among the members of Boys’ Corn Clubs, about 80 bushels.
The prize winners among the boys often produce more than 160 bushels
per acre. By what methods do the bovs increase the vield ?