While these statements of land values. Wages. and acreage product show clearly that there can be no appreciable difference in the cost of production. the fact of real importance is found in Tables 9 and 10. on pages 94 and 95. that in both countries. while the aggregate production has increased. the home consumption has increased still more rapidlythe United States exporting 6 per cent of Its product in 1910 as against 10 per cent in 1909 and 15 per cent In 1908. During the last three years of great immigration into Canada not only have its land values increased more rapidly than ours. but its percentage of wheat exports has fallen from 38.84 per cent in 1908 to 36.17 per cent in 1909 and 33.16 per cent in 1910. I now call attention to the boards summary of other products. On page 107 it says of oats: The highest American yields per acre. each about 42 bushels. are reported from the border States of Maine.
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