Present and Suggested Sources 



Table XI. 



Summary of Tables VIII,, IX., and X. 



Showing increased production of home-grown foodstuffs in 

 pounds sterling. 



* Excluding ^f 18,000,000 worth of maize, rice, etc. This in- 

 crease in home-grown food would, in the first place, displace the 

 imports from foreign countries, except in the case of grain. In this 

 case it is so important to grow here the maximum possible that this 

 must be the first consideration. But if the sources of supply were 

 carefully reorganized the decrease in this direction could be more 

 than made good by importing from British possessions all the maize, 

 rice, and foods grown in tropical countries, which at the present 

 moment come from without the Empire. 



The head of sheep in this country is larger 

 than in any other European country, and it 

 is perhaps in our sheep farming that we 

 have reached the highest average degree of 

 skill and science, but though this is so, large 

 areas of grass land now carry a few sheep, 



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