54° Twenty Years' Wheat Imports. [dec, 



in the season 1 899-1900. Australasia, while capable of yielding 

 much more than Roumania in good years, sent us absolutely 

 nothing in 1896-7. Perhaps the most interesting example of wide 

 fluctuations according to the season is to be found in the last 

 three years. In 190 1-2 we received from Australasia 6,799,000 cwt. 

 (the maximum), in 1 902-3 only 91,000 cwt. (the lowest but one), 

 while in 1903-4 we had 6,570,000 cwt. (the highest after 1901-2). 



It may be mentioned that we have occasionally received as 

 much as a million cwt. from Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, and, 

 in earlier years, Chili. 



The foregoing statements may conveniently be summed up 

 in Table III., showing the proportions of our wheat supplies 

 received from the principal countries during the past twenty, 

 years. The figures refer to grain and flour together. The 

 importation of flour from Russia, India, Argentina, Roumania, 

 and Australasia has been ignored : the amounts received thence 

 will not affect the percentages, except that the flour from. 

 Argentina (now amounting to 100,000 cwt. or rather more 

 . annually) would raise that country's quota by a decimal point 

 in certain years. 



Table III. — Percentage of Wheat (Grain and Flour Expressed as 

 Grain) Imported into the United Kingdom from certain Countries 

 to Total Imports. 



Cereal Years. 



United 

 States. 



Canada. 



Russia. 



India. 



Argentina 



Other 

 Countries. 



Total. 



I 884-1 885 



53'3 



3-0 



u-8 



12-3 





19*6 



100 



1885-1886 



50-9 



4"i 



IO'I 



17-6 





I7-3 



100 



I 886-1 887 



64-9 



6-6 



3 '9 



13-6 





ire 



100 



1887-1888 



49-8 



4-6 



20 *o 



8-2 





I7-4 



100 



1 888- 1 889 



337 



2-4 



29-8 



11-9 





22-2 



100 



1 889-1 890 



4Ti 



3'4 



23"3 



11 -6 





i6-6 



100 



1890-1891 



40*0 



4'5 



19-8 



I3'4 





22 -3 



100 



1891-1892 



59 '2 



5-2 



6-4 



15-8 



27 



107 



100 



1892-1893 



66-i 



57 



8-4 



5 '8 



6-2 



r l 



100 



1 893- 1 894 



49'8 



4'6 



17-2 



6-6 



I2'2 



9-6 



100 



1894-1895 



42'3 



P 



21-5 





13 '2 



1 1 -6 



100 



1895-1896 



50-2 



6-4 



18-9 



5-0 



6'3 



13-2 



loo 



1 896- 1 897 



55'9 



6-3 



i6-6 



•5 



1 -4 



i9;3 



100 



1 897-1 898 



63-9 



7-4 



10 -4 



8-5 



4 '2 



Y b 



100 



1 898-1 899 



6 4 '5 



9'9 



3'3 



8-8 



7'4 



6'i 



100 



1 899- 1 900 



587 





3-0 



r6 



19-1 



i 8-5 [ 



100 



1900-1901 



64-4 



7'9 



36 



1-3 ; 



ii'i 



117 



100 



1901-1902 



617 



107 



3-0 



7'3 



4'9 



I2'4 



ICO 



•1902-1903 



48-6 



12-6 



I2'3 



107 



io-6 



5-2 



100 



1903-1904 



257 



10-4 



j6-i 





14 '6 



13-9 



IOO 



