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to reason that if our home supply of wheat offals 

 is largely added to by the wheat offals from the 

 Colonial-grown grain the price of offals generally 

 must come down. 



If the supply of Colonial offals is likely, as we 

 have said, to be a large one, then those purchas- 

 ing offals must, of necessity, share in the benefits . 

 resulting from lower prices. We find, on thii 

 point, that in 1903 we imported 20,601,191 cwt 

 of wheat-flour. This quantity means 2,307,333,39 

 lb. of flour; and, according to the amount o: 

 offals obtainable from an official quarter of wheat 

 of 480 lb. (a test which was conducted at our 

 request by a British miller) we find that whilst 

 we received the above weight of flour from the 

 foreigner, the latter kept for his own use the 

 oft'als, which would amount to 24:7,461 quarters. 

 How far such a large quantity of most valuable 

 feeding material would go towards assisting in 

 the feeding of the live stock of this country, 

 every working-man who keeps a pig or poultry, 

 every small holder who keeps one or more 

 head of any class of cattle or pigs, and every 

 farmer — whether he be a dairy farmer or a 

 grazier — will be able to form an opinion for him- 

 self. At any rate, it is clear that the foreigner 

 is too cute for us; and if, therefore, by such an 

 arrangement as Mr. Chamberlain suggests, we 

 can deal with our Colonies and have the whole 

 wheat sent to us instead merely of the flour, we 

 stand to do ourselves a very good turn indeed, and 

 at the same time we shall be doing a good turn 



