The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-22
END OF WHEATSURPLUS
CANADIAN WHEAT IN QUANTITIES.
 COMES TO THE WEST.
TariH Revision Cuts Figure in the Price of Bread--People Pay Heavy
 Addition to the Cost Price.

New. York Special to New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 | It is announced In Produce Exchange
 circles that the great flour mills of l Milan eapolis are steadily importing wheat from Canada and are now grind ing it into flour.
 | The Buffalo elevator firm of James | W. whitney state that it has imported and paid the duty on 50,000 bushels of Canadian wheat which was sold to Eastern mills. The duty on wheat IS 20 per cent. amounting. at present prices to between 90 and 25 cents per bushei. -
 l Throughout the country there is a
 strong demand for the removal at once of the duty on wheat. Many leading members of the New York Produce Ex- change are strongly urging such tariff revision. Wheat experts fear that as a crisis will come in the early spring months, urgent and radical action will be necessary to protect the food sup | ply of the United States.
 Thomas A Mcintyre, who for years has been the foremost grain dealer of New York, said today:
 T strongly favor revision of the tar | fir. not only on wheat, but upon many other articles. The conditions fin this country demand that Canadian wheat. l if not wheat of all countries, should come in free of duty. All Canadian products should come into the United States free. What sense Is there in al- lowing ain imaginary line to divide peo- pie and territory that are so similar? We need the products of Canada to | help out our own supplies. The bar rier between US is without good req son." H1Ia AA~ Sfu Ia ornament, Is a frame containing pho- tographs of Roosevelt and Fairbanks testifying to his political faith. An or ganizer and director of great milling combinations and a most active spirit in the exchanges of both New York and Chicago. Mir. Mcintyre spoke with an authority born If practical knowl- edge.
 "The wheat situation, entirely aside from speculation, is most interesting and worthy of notice" he continued "Jt proves the need of free trade in that staple article of food Statisti- clans figure that an average of six bushels of wheat per capita are annu- ally required for food aud seed in the
 United States With our population of . so, 900, 900, this means a total home consumption of 4S0, ,0oo, ,000 bushels. These figures increase each year. As wealth increases. as wages are higher, our people live better and consume more bread and butter. Bread and cakes mean more flour, Better meat means more feeding of all kinds of grain. Hence the consumption of
 wheat per person steadily rises. Mean
 while the increase in supply is not
 keeping pace. Where once we were
 in A position to supply the world with
 wheat. we are now rapidly approaching
 the time when every bushei will be
 needed for home consumption.
 Last year the United States ex-
 ported 1l9 000. 900 bushels of wheat and
 flour. This year the figures will not
 reach half that amount. Striking an
 average of conservative estimates our
 total crop of wheat this year Is 525,-
 900 900 bushels Deducting our home
 requirements of 4S0.00o,0o0 there are
 left 45,O0OO0O bushels of a surplus,
 which in reality is much smaller this
 year, owing to the poor and light qual-
 ity of the wheat. Our shipments for
 the five and one-haif months since
 July 1 amount to 32.000.0 900 bushels.
 so 1t Is easy to see that if exports con-
 tinue for a few weeks there will not
 be enough left for home consumption.
 Tt is an easy prediction to make
 that, in another year, the United States
 will be consuming its entire wheat
 crop without any left for export. and
 in a few years more, if conditions are
 not altered, there will be necessity for
 imports. Therefore the tariff on wheat
 is absurd.
 There are many men in the grain