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Such need has more especially been found in regard to the 

 purchase of artificial fertilisers. 



The magnitude of the manufacturing industry to which 

 the use of these now indispensable requisites in farming has 

 led in Great Britain is suggested by the following figures 

 for 1907, taken from the Board of Agriculture Report on the 

 Agricultural Output : — 



Total . . . . . . 1,558,000 6,671,000 



Imports of fertilisers into the United Kingdom in the same 

 year amounted to a total of 296,000 tons, valued at £1,703,000. 

 Deducting net exports from the home production, and 

 omitting the figures for Ireland, the Board of Agriculture 

 Report calculates that the value of the artificial fertilisers 

 available for use on farms in Great Britain in 1907 was 

 between £2,900,000 and £3,900,000. 



The world's consumption of nitrate of soda in 191 1 is 

 shown by Messrs. W. Montgomery & Co., in a report on the 

 fertiliser industry in that year, to have been 2,394,000 tons, 

 as compared with 2,241,000 in 1910, an increase of 4*82 per 

 cent. An analysis of the European consumption in 191 1 

 as compared with 1910 gives the following figures : — 



Manufactured feeding stuffs available for consumption in 

 Great Britain in 1907, as given in the Board of Agriculture 

 Report, are valued as follows : — 



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