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More Wheat. 



[JULY, 



MORE WHEAT. 



Sir Daniel Hall, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



Few questions are of more importance, not merely to the 

 farmer but to the whole community, than the prospects for 

 the production and price of wheat during the next year or 

 two. 



Production and Imports, 1909-13 and 1918. — In order to under- 

 stand the situation we may begin by comparing the pro- 

 duction and imports in the years immediately preceding 

 the War with those in 1918. 





Wheat Imports. 







Average igog-13. 





igi8. 









Per 





Per 





Cwt. 



cent. 



Cwt. 



cent. 



Home Production 







49,899,000 





United Kingdom 



^ [ 31,950.246 



21-3 . 



34-5 



Canada 



24,678,948 



15-1 • 



23.697,450 



16-4 



Australia 



12,423,203 



8-3 . 



4,345,783 



30 



India . . 



19,393,056 



12-9 



719,594 



o'5 



U.S.A. 



26,336,680 



17-6 



49,706,360 



34*4 



Russia 



15,788,123 



10 -5 . 







Argentine 



16,848,870 



II -2 



14,391,067 



10 -o 



Other Countries 



4,640,716 



3-1 • 



1,697,912 



I -2 



Total Imports 



118,109,596 



787 . 



94,558,166 



65-5 



Total 



• • 150,059,842 



100 -o 



• 144.457,166 



100 -o 



In 1918 we had, perforce, reduced our consumption from 

 150,000,000 cwt. to 144,000,000 cwt. Home production had 

 been stimulated from an average of under 32,000,000 cwt. to 

 nearly 50,000,000 cwt., so that it formed 34 J per cent, instead 

 of 21 per cent, of the consumption. Shipping difficulties had 

 almost wiped out the imports from Australia and India, Russia 

 was no longer an exporter, and the quantity obtained from 

 the Argentine was somewhat reduced, but the United 

 States came forward with nearly 50,000,000 cwt. instead of 

 26,000,000 cwt. in the pre-war years. 



Nineteen hundred and nineteen saw the British production 

 drop from 49,899,000 to 37,135,714 cwt., but the United 

 States and Canada sent 71,613,142 cwt., and Australia again 

 made a substantial contribution. What are the prospects 

 for 1920 ? 



