WHEAT. 



WHEAT. 



Pnrtootly to 1830, the monthly returns of the importation and consumption of foreign and colonial corn were 

 ! perioili., commencing on 1st January, and terminating on 31st December. From 1833, 



downward*, they have been made up, like the other accounts of this department, in periods, commencing on 6th 

 January in each year, and terminating on 5th January, in the year succeeding. This circumstance is necessary to 

 be noted. Inasmuch as It explains why the aggregate imports and consumption of the several years, from 1828 to 

 1*38 infinitive, u e*hihiti-.l in tin- prcteul statement, will be found to differ, to a small extent, from the quantities 

 ebown la other accounts, which have been compiled, not, as in this case, from special monthly returns of the corn 

 trade, but from the ordinary records of the general commerce of the country. 



* AW. The return* tor 1M1 will be liable to alteration (although not to any considerable extent) when the 

 cconto of tfcal year ahall bare been finally adjusted. 



t of the Septennial Prices of each kind of Grain, as prepared for the Purposes of the Tithe Commission, in 

 each Year, from 1635 to 1841. 



