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ing maize, rice, cattle food or the products of 

 tropical countries) was imported from foreign 

 countries in igo8. Vide Board of Trade Report. 

 Of this total I estimate that the following 

 amounts might well be produced at home by 

 our own agriculturists : 



Total ^91,777,000 



The ;f32,ooo,ooo worth of foodstuff — the 

 difference between the ^^g 1,000,000 arrived at 

 in the above table and the total amount im- 

 ported from foreign countries — should be trans- 

 ferred to our Colonies. The chief item in this 

 ;f 32,000,000 worth would be meat of all kinds, 

 the total importation of meat being some 

 ^^48,000,000. 



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