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The Octopus

CHAPTER I
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Rice in China is losing its nutritive quality.

The Asiatics, though, must be fed; if not on rice, then on wheat.

Why, Mr.
Derrick, if only one-half the population of China ate a half ounce of flour per man per day all the wheat areas in California could not feed them.

Ah, if I could only hammer that into the brains of every rancher of the San Joaquin, yes, and of every owner of every bonanza farm in Dakota and Minnesota.

Send your wheat to China; handle it yourselves; do away with the middleman; break up the Chicago wheat pits and elevator rings and mixing houses.


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