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By the aid of the agricultural returns, and 

 those of the annual imports of foreign and 

 colonial produce, I have constructed the preced- 

 ing Table, showing the comparative quantities 

 of home and foreign growth, and the value of 

 agricultural produce at present required for the 

 annual consumption of the people and live-stock 

 of this country. The grass, green crops other 

 than potatoes, and hay used on the farm, and 

 straw, are not included, nor the value of the 

 increase of horses. 

 Quantity The total value of the home crop is more 



and value 



of home than double that which we import, but the 



and foreign 



agricul- proportion of vegetable and animal produce is 



tural pro- 



.duce, re- singularly close, as will be seen by this further 



spectively 



consumed arra n Cement of the figures : 



annually in 

 the British 



Islands. Home Growth. Foreign. 



Value of Corn and Vegetable 



produce .... .125,737,500 64,900,000 



Value of animal produce, in- 

 clusive of wool . . . 135,000,000 60,400,000 



260,737,500 "125,300,000 



