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.  Theactual quantity imported by Great Britain averages 121,256,572 
bushels per annum for fifteen years (counting bushels at 60 pounds), 
of which the United States has contributed 929,656,838 bushels, or an | 
’' average of 61,977,122 bushels annually. Stated in bushels, for other 
countries, the record is: 
Countries. In fifteen years. | Average. 
< ; Bushels. Bushels. 
ALON SUALONG Che ted fc lecrad sds Ll J anteee naw tenes ae oe 929, 656, 838 61, 977, 122 
TESTERS ST yd Se Oe Se ee er am oe Aare | 246, 991, 629 16, 466, 109 
DET Lo ie Bibege. ocx Ai i AS BN ee 9 ah go de ee 143, 528. 146 9, 568, 543 
PRREMMCLASEA eh ate, Mla A. alc, te 5 Seek gh Som ce elses Mesias Oadelenn bash ole 70, 309, 557 4, 687, 304 
PURER OUTLET fs ch ce ake gerne latest <1 is teteths mage eee Phase alee ke hehe wa 428, 362, 405 | 28, 557, 494 
RGR aaa Seite dias tis oti ch dale kantsaats Ae esis a oe eee ahs. sly and (Gad 1, 818, 848, 575 21, 256, 572 
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Diagram G shows the total importation into Great Britain, and 
the relative proportions supplied by theUnited States, Russia, India, 
and Australasia during fifteen years. 
The share contributed by Russia has been very variable. 
It was 
largest in the first year of the fifteen, and ranges from 3,000,000 to 
18,000,000 hundredweight. 
years. 
It has recently been less than in former 
The increased receipts from India since 1882 have given false im- 
pressions of the importance of competition from that quarter. The 
commercial press has become especially excited over the temporary 
movement which has already been retarded for lack of export wheat. 
‘Three or four years ago there was a small increase of acreage, a 
million or two above the normal 26,000,000 which had been seeded 
from time immemorial, which has already been partly ee up. 
There is small prospect of increased exportation for 
ndia except — 
by slow degrees, and subject to frequent lapses by reason of poor 
crop years.. 
The natives still work fora few cents per day, plow 
-with a stick, thrash in the primitive fashion, and market dirt and 
seeds of weeds with the grain. 
turies still cling to them. 
few of them know the taste of wheat. 
The habits and prejudices of cen- 
Their food is still rice and millets, and 
In numbers four times as 
many asthe people of this country, they have less than 27,000,000 acres 
in wheat, which is eaten mainly by Europeans in India, 
Under pres- 
ent conditions there is little land to spare for extension of wheat 
culture. 
It could be done by infusing occidental progressiveness 
into beings steeped in oriental inertia from time immemorial, teach-’ 
ing them a new agriculture, training them in the use of modern im- 
plements, and doubling the products of agricultural cultivation, thus 
releasing lands for new industries. 
would be miracles. 
These changes, if sudden, 
There is scarcely a people on the face of the ° 
globe less likely to change their industrial status suddenly. 
The official estimates of India show that in Bombay there was 
some increase in 1884, and in Central India and Hyderabad in the 
native states. 
Not only has this tendency been arrested, but a de- 
celine has occurred in the heart of the Northwestern Provinces and 
* Uude and in Punjab. 
of wheat-growing in India: 
The following statement shows the movement 
