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COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
VOL. LIV. ESTABLISHED BY EDWARD L. YOUMANS. NO. 2.
I. Wheat-growing Capacity of the United States. By E. ATKINSON, 145
II. The Racial Geography of Europe. The Jews. By Prof. WILLIAM Z. RIPLEY. (Illustrated.), 163
III. The Playgrounds of Rural and Suburban Schools. By I. G. OAKLEY, 176
IV. Up the Skeena River. By GEORGE A. DORSEY, Ph. D. (Illus.), 181
V. Light and Vegetation. By Prof. D. T. MACDOUGAL, 193
VI. The Stone Age in Egypt. By J. DE MORGAN, 202
VII. Superstition and Crime. By Prof. E. P. EVANS, 206
VIII. A Geological Romance. By Prof. J. A. UDDEN. (Illustrated.), 222
IX. The Season of the Year. By GRANT ALLEN, 230
X. Brain Weights and Intellectual Capacity. By JOSEPH SIMMS, M. D., 243
XI. Speleology, or Cave Exploration. By M. E. A. MARTEL, 255
XII. Sketch of Charles Henry Hitchcock. (With Portrait.), 260
XIII. Editor's Table: Evolution and Education.--David Ames Wells.--A Borrowed Foundation, 269
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THE WHEAT-GROWING CAPACITY OF THE UNITED STATES.
In 1880 it happened to fall to me to make a forecast of the very great reduction in the price of wheat in Great Britain, which could then be predicated on the lessening cost of transportation from Chicago to the seaboard, thence to British ports, which was then sure to be soon followed by a large reduction in the railway charges for bringing the wheat to Chicago from the other Western centers of distribution. I then alleged that the time was not far off when, even if the price of wheat in Mark Lane were reduced from the then existing rate of fifty-two shillings per quarter to thirty-four shillings, it would still yield as full a return to the Western farmer as it had yielded in previous years at fifty shillings and upward. This forecast attracted great attention, and has since been made the subject of very much bitter controversy, especially since the fall in prices was much more rapid than I then thought it could be, and was carried to a much lower point than any one could have then anticipated. It will be remarked that thirty-four shillings in Mark Lane is at the rate of one dollar and three cents per bushel of sixty pounds.