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Large and Small Holdings 



such goods as are also produced at home are here given, as it is only 

 these which enter into the present question. The figures in each case 

 are per thousand, the ciphers being omitted 1 . 



The imports of other products of petite culture have also risen 

 enormously of late years, as the table on the next page will show. 

 Here also the figures are for thousands, the ciphers being omitted 2 . 



The imports of potatoes, onions and cherries also show a consider- 

 able increase, as do those of vegetables ; but unfortunately the statistics 

 for these last do not distinguish between the different kinds of 

 vegetables, so that they are not available for our purposes. However, 

 it is clear that the consumption of all these articles of food is enor- 

 mously increasing year by year. The statistics also show that the value 

 of the imports of butter, cheese, condensed milk, apples and eggs 

 alone is about equal to the total value of wheat imported. In 1909 

 the value of those five articles of import was ^"41,200,000, while 



1 Cp. Agricultural Statistics for 1903, pp. 142 f., and ibid, for 1909, Part ill, 

 pp. 290-1. 



8 Agricultural Statistics for 1903, pp. 152, 144, and ibid, for 1909, pp. 300, 292, 318. 



