Speech #620007360

The State of Minnesota produces in the neighborhood of 90.000.000 bushels of wheat each year. about oneeighth of the total production of the United States. It is what is known as hard wheat. Canada produces about twice as much as the State of Minnesota. but with its great area of untilled lands and its great increase in immigration. its production will increase in amount very rapidly. while we can not look for so great an increase in production in this country. If the Canadian farmer is permitted to sell his wheat in the Minneapolis market. it is not an exaggeration to say that twice as much wheat will be offered for sale in that market as at the present time. and it can not be denied that the greater the quantity of any commodity offered for sale in any market the less the price of that commodity is likely to be. The gentleman from North Dakota. during the debate. called attention to the fact that a village located on the boundary line between North Dakota and Canada had two -wheat marketsone on the American side and one on the Canadian sideand the price paid for wheat on the American side was much in excess of the price paid on the Canadian side.