20 THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF 



of the marketable crops the value of the 

 imports, less the exports — which reaches a 

 net total of £178,349,000— we arrive at a 

 gross total of £329,149,000, which practi- 

 cally represents the foodstuffs consumed 

 by the population of this country, and 

 the market in which these foodstuffs are 

 sold. 



