IMPORTS 



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at home. The following table, however, will 

 show a state of affairs that is lamentably the 



reverse 



Imports of Certain Articles of Food, 191I.* 



A certain small percentage, such as special 

 fruits or early vegetables, must naturally be 

 supplied from elsewhere ; but our country, by 

 the natural conditions of its fertile soil and 

 moderate climate, is in a position to produce 

 the greater bulk of tliis huge total. 



Owing to their relative value the production 

 of these crops would form a remunerative 

 substitute where other crops had failed, and 



* Agricultural Statistics, 1911. Cd. 6385. 



t Exclusive of oranges, lemons, grapes and bananas. 



