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Show Indian Wheat for the World. New Yobk, February fi. At the meeting of the New Jersey Board of Agriculture, E. H. Dudley, the president, said concerning Indian In-dian wheat: "The great fdifficulty in India has been in the cost of transporting trans-porting wheat to ports of shipment. The price has been about double from Delhi to Bombay, a distance of 822 miles by rail, what it is from Chicago to New York, a distance of 911 miles. But the costs have been somewhat reduced, the railroad facilities facili-ties being increased. This will open up large tracts of rich, cheap lands, equal in fertility to any we have for wheat culture, and which heretofore had no communication communica-tion with the seaboard. With these large tracts opened and their abundant cheap labor, there is no reason why in the very near future they will not produce double the quantity of wheat they are now producing. This India wheat can be laid down in the London and Liverpool markets at seventy-five seventy-five cents a bushel, which is lower than our farmers can do it. India wheat can be brought to New. York by way of the Suez canal for eighty cents a bushel, and but for our protective duty of twenty cents per bushel it could be laid down here at that price. With the duty added it can now be placed in New York at a dollar a bushel." |