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THE GRAIN CEOPS. 



various kinds, imported into the United Kingdom, exclusive of 

 flour and meal, rice, sago, &c., averaged 8,085,903 quarters. 



The flour and meal imported, omitting sago, arrowroot and 

 other starches, averaged in the same period 4,143,603 cwts. 

 annually. 



The annual imports of breadstuff's for food, taking the average 

 of the four years ending with 1852, may be thus summed up 



Tons. 

 Corn and grain, 8,085,903 quarters, at 60 Ib. the bushel 173,270 



Flour and meal 



Rice 



Potatoes . 



Sago, arrowroot, &c. 



Total 



207,180 

 40,817 

 42,440 

 5,000 



. 468,707 



Some portion of this quantity is doubtless consumed in the 

 arts as starch for stiffening linens, &c., and for other purposes 

 not coming under the term of food, but I have purposely left out 

 in the calculation about 30,000 to 40,000 quarters of rice in the 

 husk annually imported. 



Ireland took, in 1849, of foreign grain 2,115,129 quarters ; 

 1,683,687 quarters in 1850 ; and 2,504,229 in 1851 ; as well as 

 256,837 cwts. of various kinds of meal and flour in 1849; 220,107 

 cwts. in 1850 ; and 341,680 cwts. in 1851. England also sup- 

 plied her with about 500,000 quarters of grain and 350,000 cwts. 

 of meal in each of those years. 



' The comparative returns of the importations of grain into the 

 United Kingdom for the last four years, are as follows, in 

 quarters : 



185]. 1850. 1849. 



3,812,009 . 3,738,995 ... 3,845,378 

 829,564 . 1,035,903 ... 1,381,008 

 1,198,529 . 1,154,473 ... 1,267,106 

 24,609 . 98,836 ... 240,566 

 318,502 . 443,306 ... 457,933 

 99,399 . 181,419 ... 234,366 

 1,807,636 . 1,277,071 ... 2,224,459 

 3,432 . 868 ... 1,150 



Wheat 



Barley 



Oats 



Rye 



Beans 



Peaa 



Maize 



Other sorts 



1852. 



3,068,892 



656,737 



995,480 



10,023 



371,250 



107,017 



1,479,891 



8,085 



Quarters 



6,667,375 



8,124,280 



7,930,871 



9,651,966 



The meal and flour imported in the same years, m cwts., were 

 as follows : 



1852. 1851. 



1850. 

 3,819,440 

 108 

 5,999 

 964 

 11,334 

 163 



1849. 

 3,349,839 

 224 

 40,230 

 18,468 

 101,683 

 1,396 



Cwts. ... 3,891,195 ... 5,323,370 ... 3,838,008 ... 3,511,840 



Before the famine in Ireland the imports seldom reached 20 mil- 

 lions of bushels of grain and meal of all kinds. In 1848 our imports 



