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Show Prince Krapotkin of Russia in a letter published in the New York Post recently, says it appears from very careful modern researches that the grain-exporting capacities of the Russian Empire have been very much exaggerated. The considerable con-siderable quantities of grain which are exported at the present time do not represent a corresponding surplus of production over and above the needs of the population, and the latest researches tend to prove more and more that the yearly consumption of wheat and rye per head of population in Russia Rus-sia would no more than equal the annual consumption of wheat p'sr head in western Europe if no wheat and rye were exported at all and the total crop of these two eeieals were consumed within Russia itself. Oregon Agriculturist. Agricultur-ist. - . . ,. . - |