402 Agricultural Imports of Cereal Year, [oct., 



The receipts of wheat-flour, on the other hand, do not exhibit 

 much change, the total quantity during the past three years 

 having been about 19,100,000 cu t. Taking the wheat grain and 

 flour together and expressing the flour in its approximate 

 weight as grain, the imports in 1903-4 represent 27,927,000 qrs. 

 (of 480 lb.) of wheat. The estimated quantity of this grain 

 obtained in the United Kingdom from the harvest of 1903 was 

 6,100,000 qrs., so that the foreign grain represented no less than 

 82 per cent, of the gross supply available for all purposes in 

 these islands. 



The figures for the principal cereals in each of the past ten 

 harvest years are given below :-— 



Year. 



In Millions of Cwt. 















Wheat. 



Wheat-flour. 



Barley. 



Oats. 



Maize. 



1 903-1 904 



93-i 



I9'l 



3i-9 



15-2 



47-6 



1 902- 1 903 



85-1 



19-2 



257 



16 -6 



41*6 



1901-1902 



747 



19T 



23-1 



167 



47 '2 



1 900-1 90 1 



71-2 



23'3 



187 



22*1 



55'8 



1899-1900 



65 'O 



21 *6 



15-2 



I9-8 



577 



1S98-1899 



67-0 



22*9 



22-9 



14-9 



57 '5 



1897-1898 



66- 4 



20 "O 



20-3 



I5'4 



55-6 



1896-1897 



65-0 



20 - 0 



217 



18-4 



597 



1895-1896 



68-8 



19-9 



22*0 



I5'i 



44'5 



1894-1895 



8o-6 



187 



25 2 



157 



277 



In the case of barley, as with wheat, the imports, it will be 

 seen, reached a very high figure, being more than double the 

 quantity received in 1899-1900. Russia, Roumania, Turkey, 

 and the United States were the principal exporters, the receipts 

 from Russia amounting to 13,204,000 cwt. The imports of oats 

 were rather less than they have been for some years past, and 

 this is the only important grain that has shown but little ten- 

 dency to expansion. Maize, though received in rather larger 

 quantities than in 1902-3, shows a figure lower than in any of 

 the five years from 1896-97 to 1 900-1. The principal source of 

 supply was Argentina, from which country 24,283,000 cwt. 

 were received. In the previous year the United States took the 

 first place with 16,309,000 cwt., and in 1 901-2 Roumania headed 

 the list with 20,035,000 cwt. 



Turning to the remaining items in the general table, the 



