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Rh Manufacturers need a constantly growing market for their products, and there are large areas in the United States capable of supporting a much greater population than they have at present, if agriculture and transportation both succeed.

The Northern Pacific States, for example, have areas and population as follows:— These seven States are nearly six and one half times as large as New York (49,170) and Pennsylvania (45,215) together, with their 94,385 square miles. They have a population of 7,503,026, as compared with 7,665,111 in Pennsylvania and 9,113,279 in New York. They produced in 1909 a total of 265,712,000 bushels of wheat, or 35 per cent of the crop of the United States, and received $247,617,000, Rh