Consumption of Wheat per Head per Annum. 



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of better quality than much of the home-grown grain. 

 Upon the whole, the investigators were led to conclude that 

 their estimates of consumption (5'1 bushels per head per 

 annum) over the first period of eight years (1852-59) might 

 be somewhat too low ; also that their previously published 

 estimates of consumption for the years subsequent to the first 

 sixteen, were more probably too low than that their estimates 

 of average produce per acre, and of aggregate produce 

 founded upon them, were too high. For reasons assigned, 

 however, they adopt in their second paper their previous 

 estimates of average produce per acre each year without 



TABLE XVIII. YIELD OP WHEAT PER ACRE PER ANNUM. 



Average produce per acre. 



According to in- 

 creased con- 

 sumption and 

 imports. 



According to 



annually adopted 



estimates. 



change. They also adopt their previous estimates of con- 

 sumption per head for the first two periods of eight years 

 each without change 5'1 bushels and 5'5 bushels respectively. 

 But, for the third period of eight years, they assume the 

 consumption to be at the rate of 5'6 bushels per head, and 

 for the last three years (1876-78) at the rate of 5'65 bushels, 

 instead of 5.5 bushels over those eleven years, as previously 

 reckoned ; and, until further experience should indicate 

 further change to be necessary, they propose to adopt 5| 

 bushels as the average consumption per head of the popula- 

 tion per annum over the United Kingdom. Beckoning 

 consumption at the rate of 5'1 bushels per head per annum 



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