CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Home and Foreign Supply of Fooa. 



PAGF. 



Functions of Government in regard to the Supply 

 of Food — Value of Cereal and Animal Food im- 

 ported from Abroad — Rapid Rise in the Value 

 of Meat — may be checked by Importations 

 from America — Proportion of Home and Foreign 

 Supply of Food in this Country— England 

 now chiefly dependent on Foreign Supplies for 

 further Increase — Cost of Carriage equal to the 

 Rent of Land here — Agricultural Statistics suffi- 

 ciently accurate for use— Their main Features — 

 Diminution of Corn in Ireland — Present Agricul- 

 tural Prosperity of that Country — Extent of the 

 various Crops and Numbers of Live-stock — 

 Quantities and Value of Home and Foreign 

 Produce, respectively, consumed annually in 

 this Country .. ... i — 15 



