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MILLET 



Millet is sometimes called Guinea corn or durrah. It is 

 largely grown in Africa and India for home use, but is not 

 exported to other countries. 



Wheat. 



Foreign. 



United States, 



Argentina, 

 Russia. 



CEREALS 



SOURCES OF SUPPLY 



British. 

 Britain, 

 Canada, 

 British India, 

 Australia, 

 New Zealand. 



Remarks. 



Britain produces about one-fifth 

 of the wheat she consumes. 

 Of imports 46 per cent, are from 

 empire sources. The empire 

 actually produces 95 per cent. 

 of the amount required by the 

 empire : at present much of 

 this is sold to foreign countries. 



Barley. Russia, Britain, Britain produces 60 per cent, of 



United States, British India, her requirements. Of imports 



Turkey, Canada, Cyprus, 27 per cent, are from empire 



Roumania. Australia. sources. 



Oats. Argentina, Britain, Britain produces 75 per e nt. of 



Germany, Canada, her requirements. Of imports 



Russia, New Zealand, 12 per cent, are from empire 



United States. Australia. sources. 



Maize. Argentina, British South Of imports about 3 per cent, are 



United States, Africa, from empire sources, but re- 



Roumania. British India, cently the percentage has be- 



Canada. come higher. 



Rice. 



Russia, 

 Siam. 



British India 

 (Burma). 



Of imports about 60 per cent, are 

 from empire sources. 



CHAPTER IV 

 SAGO, LENTILS, ARROWROOT, TAPIOCA 



SAGO. Our word Sago is a form of the Malay word sagu, 

 which means bread, for sago forms the chief food of thousands 

 of the natives of the Malay Archipelago. 



The tree from which sago is obtained is a palm, calded 

 Metroxylon Sagu. Metro is from metra, meaning marrow or 

 pith, and xylon is the Greek for tree, so the sago palm is the 

 tree with a pith. It grows to a height of thirty or forty feet, 



