Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-05

and that the worlds price is adjusted
and made at Liverpool by the relation ol
the supply of the exported wheat to the
demand for 1t by countries which 90 no'
raise enough to supply their people:
sit may be that the free admission
of wheat from the United States into
Canada will increase to some e1tent
the price to the Canadian farmer: put
it will not decrease the price PAID 10
the American farmer because 1t VIII
not decrease the demand upon the
American farmer for his wheat.
1.-The diversion from British and Eu-
ropean markets to the markets OF the
United States of twenty TO 1orty NIL
lion bushels of Canadian wheat an
nually would not only strengthen the
wheat market abroad, but would fur-
nish the American mills with needed
complement Of wheat which the world
would require just as 1t has in the
mast. but It would then be in the shape
OF American-made flour. The effect
Of increased wheat supplies would be
to reduce the cost of manufacturing
-four in just the ratio that the mills
were able to thereby increase their
output This reduced cost Of produc-
ton would enable the mills to regain
in the foreign market the eighteen to
twenty million barrels of flour sold
in foreign trade annually ten years
ago, but which in recent years has
fallen to less than ten million barrels.
The American-grown wheat would not
be decreased in value In the slightest,
but on the contrary, because OF In
creased marketing facilities and fuller
time operation, the mills would be In
quantities of American grown wheat.
Other Important Grains.
whenever the probable course OF
trade under reciprocity Is analysed as
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Canada can compete. the conclusions
vary but slightly from those reached
with respect to wheat. AS to barley
and oats. the next most important
grains likely to enter into our inter-
national exchange under reciprocity.
the quality of the Canadian products
will commend them to our use. Their
appearance in the American market
may cause their substitution to some
extent for our own similar products,
but such substitution would mean just
so much elimination Of Canada's prod
ucts from the markets of the world.
s'Their place needs to be filled and the
supply for this purpose would most nat
urally come from the United States. thus
enlarging our own foreign outlet for those
grains.
sidered the subject in all its bearings
have overlooked the benefits arising from,
will accrue to the small farmer through
out the central and eastern states whose
expanding possibilities in dairying. fruit
raising, stock conditioning and other spe-
cialized forms Of farm life have reduced
his productive capacity in the raising of
grains and hay. and who is becoming
among the best Of customers for hay.
corn, oats and mill feeds-the products
of the farmer Of the west and southwest.
These smaller farmers-and their number
is large and constantly increasing-will
be benefited by the greater measure of
uniformity of cost and assured regularity
of supply through reciprocity.
West Shares in Benefits.
Indiana is fairly representative of the
states of the middle west in It's relation
to Canadian reciprocity. Its consumers
will benefit by the remission Of duties on
food products and by the remission of
the duties on fish, and they will share in
the advantages of the S1,0O0O00 remission
of duties on the classes of lumber which
enter into home buildings as well as by
the free entry of gypsum. which is a con-
stituent element in cement that Is now SO
iarxeIy used in building construction
They will also gain by the reduction on
building stone and other articles.
.sWhen It comes to the Canadian mar
ket Indiana producers will be At q very
decided advantage. Indiana vegetables