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Show sunt into them and we had a phenomenal phenom-enal production added to the crop of the country, lint there are no more virgin fluids within reach of Yankee ingenuity and the wheat of the future must In? priitltict'il in respouse to a demand de-mand for it rather than as a wholesale speculation. TIIK W1IICAT CHOI". The statiscians aro coining to the conclusion con-clusion that the days of surplus wheat crops are about over. The Loudon Kcononiist. iu a recent article, says: "The present wheat area of the world, which had grown inordinately iu the decade precediug tho last, is not now great enough, under tho'evisting methods meth-ods of cultivation, to supply bread-eaters bread-eaters with food one year after another." an-other." It has been plain for many years that an end must come to the expansion of wheat production. It is not likely that a scarcity will 1 experienced for generations, gen-erations, but prices must keep up tn a i figure slillicient to jtislily the farmer; iu devoting, his fields to the produc-i tion of the cereal. The great i increase of production that fol- j lowed tho opening up of tho ! western wheat lands depressed the j j price to such an extent that other crops i I became more profitable in many locali- ! j ties. The conditions from this time for- ' j ward will gradually be reversed and j the great staple food product will be j an important crop to th.r farmer wher-: wher-: ever it can be grow n, j It is believed that there is much land ; I in other counties that will in future i ; years be sown with wheat, but those ' areas will not be brought under culii- ! : ration with a rush like that which char ' aeterized the development of our west- i , cm wheat growing industry. The ' 1 greatest wheat sections that the world t has ever known were opened to tin ', fanners iu a few years. Improved cui- thatitig aud harvesting machinery was j 1 |