Agriculture and the wheat supply

Agriculture and the wheat supply

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ABSTRACT THE present high price of food has directed attention to the urgent need for increasing the production of wheat in this country so that we may be less dependent than at present on foreign supplies. Prior to the outbreak of war the official statistics showed that we were producing only about one-fifth of the wheat we consumed. As the war came in August our homegrown supply was at its maximum, and the Board of Agriculture was able to issue a reassuring report as to the quantities in hand. But the shortage of available shipping has so affected the amounts of imported wheat that the demand has exceeded the supply, and in consequence prices have risen. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support Authors * E. J. RUSSELL View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE RUSSELL, E. _Agriculture and the Wheat Supply_ . _Nature_ 98, 269–271 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098269d0 Download citation * Issue Date: 07 December 1916 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098269d0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

ABSTRACT THE present high price of food has directed attention to the urgent need for increasing the production of wheat in this country so that we may be less dependent than at present on


foreign supplies. Prior to the outbreak of war the official statistics showed that we were producing only about one-fifth of the wheat we consumed. As the war came in August our homegrown


supply was at its maximum, and the Board of Agriculture was able to issue a reassuring report as to the quantities in hand. But the shortage of available shipping has so affected the amounts


of imported wheat that the demand has exceeded the supply, and in consequence prices have risen. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content,


access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn


more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS


OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support Authors * E. J. RUSSELL View author publications You can also search for this author


inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE RUSSELL, E. _Agriculture and the Wheat Supply_ . _Nature_ 98, 269–271 (1916).


https://doi.org/10.1038/098269d0 Download citation * Issue Date: 07 December 1916 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098269d0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be


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