12 IMPORTS AND HOME PRODUCTION 



poultry are imported to the value of £10.7 millions, of 

 which only a very small fraction comes from British 

 Possessions. The value of the home production is esti- 

 mated at £10.3 millions, a figure which again takes no 

 account of the large amounts which are consumed by 

 private producers and are never sold. On the whole, we 

 may estimate that at least one-half of the total con- 

 sumption is grown within the United Kingdom. 



In addition we consume about £40 millions worth of 

 food — sugar, rice, nuts and fruit — that is not produced 

 at all in the United Kingdom, and only about £3 

 millions of this comes from British Possessions. 



TABLE IV.— COMPARISON OF IMPORTS AND HOME 

 PRODUCTION (1910-I4) 



Mr. Rew's estimates for the five years 1910-14 

 (Journal of the Board of Agriculture, XXII, 1915, p. 514), 



