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Quantities of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, Beans, Indian Corn or Maize, 

 Wheatmeal and Flour, Imported in the Six Months ended SOtli June 

 in the three Years 18G5-6-7 ; also the Countries from which the Wheat 

 and Wheatmeal were obtained. 



Wheat from — 



Eussia 



Denmark 



Prussia 



Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg 



Mecklenburg 



Hanse Towns 



Trance 



}. Turkey and Wallachia and Moldavia 



Egypt 



United States 



British North America 



Other countries 



Total Wheat 



Barley 



Oats 



Peas 



Beans 



Indian Corn, or Maize 



Wheatmeal and Flour from — 



Hanse Towns 



France 



United States 



British North America 



Other countries 



Total Wheatmeal and Flour 



1865. 



1866. 



cwts. 

 2,693,820 



233,665 



2,260,322 

 134,640 

 260,768 

 245 ,822 

 460,662 



352,393 



212,901 

 21,187 



586,088 



7,462,268 



4,161,894 



3,081,990 



218,068 

 436,033 



2,076,918 



129,294 



,231,380 



108,694 



14,136 



78,871 



1,562,375 



cwts. 



3,649,398 



148,615 

 1,663, 193 



73,507 



302,225 



315,701 



2,683,389 



295,973 



7,012 

 315 ,160 



8,789 

 2,045,714 



1867. 



11,508,676 



3,954,929 



3,490,490 



542,637 



244,376 



6,151,931 



130,352 



2,713,046 



164,735 

 6,142 



120,209 



3,134,484 



cwts. 



5,147,296 

 305,412 



3,532,054 



83,599 



498,343 



432,281 



418,793 



1,338,159 



48,505 

 1,071,512 



87 

 1,572,515 



14,448,556 

 . 3,336,476 



4,281,150 



743,118 



996,006 



4,563,553 



238,053 

 882,613 



106,272 



6,584 

 589,550 



J 1,823,072 



The importation of wheat in the first six months of 1867 shows a 

 considerable excess over the amounts imported in the corresponding 

 periods of two preceding years, — that excess being 25 per cent, 

 over 1866 ; 93 per cent, over 1865. Eussia continued to supply 

 about a third of the whole; and Prussia, whence a much less 

 quantity was received in the previous year in consequence of the 

 war, supplied about a fourth of the total amount. From France the 

 supply, which was large in 1866, has been lately inconsiderable; 

 while that from the United States, though still comparatively small, 

 has increased. Sixty per cent, of wheat imported in the last half- 

 year came from the Russian and Prussian dominions. The principal 

 supply of wheat-flour is from France ; and in the first half of the 

 current year it was greatly diminished. For in the same period of 

 1865 French flour was 79 per cent, of the whole quantity; in that 

 of 1866 it was 86 per cent. ; and this year only 48 per cent. The 

 supply from some other countries increased. 



