191 1.] Imports of the Cereal Year. 



487 



given in the table are the quantities returned as sold, from 

 which the averages are calculated : — 



Harvest 

 years. 



Prices per quarter. 



Quantities sold at certain 

 markets. 



Sept. i-Aug. 31 



Wheat. 



Barley. 



Oats. 



Wheat. 



Barley. 



Oats. 



1901- 02 ... 



1902- 03 ... 



1903- O4 ... 



1904- 05 ... 



1905- C6 ... 



1906- 07 .. 



1907- 08 ... 



1908- 09 ... 



1909- IO ... 



1910- II ... 



* d. 

 28 4 

 26 5 

 27» 2 



30 7 



28 9 

 28 I 



3 2 9 

 36 6 

 32 6 

 3° 11 



S. d. 

 25 II 



23 4 

 21 10 



24 6 

 24 2 



24 5 



25 8 



26 11 



23 10 



24 9 



s. d. 

 20 4 

 17 8 



16 4 



17 0 



18 5 

 18 4 

 18 2 

 18 10 

 17 8 

 17 8 



Quarters. 



2,451.275 

 2,386,017 

 2,129,448 

 1,746,927 

 2,940,263 

 2,830,991 

 2,944,256 

 2,962,825 

 3,144,873 

 2,799,763 



Quarters. 

 3,176,599 

 3,151,337 

 2,780,473 

 3,141,058 

 3,202,613 

 3,376,615 

 3,564,908 

 2,972,889 

 2,988,483 

 2,992,128 



Quarters. 



698,840 

 1,104,660 

 1,132,086 



1,178,154 

 940,015 

 1,219,419 

 1,530,848 

 1,054,318 

 795,824 

 831,898 



The receipts of flour have, on the whole, been declining 

 since 1900-1, when the quantity imported was 23,000,000 

 cwt. The United States formerly supplied almost the 

 whole of the flour imported into this country, but side by 

 side with the decrease in the imports of American wheat a 

 great drop in the supply of flour from this source has taken 

 place. Receipts from Canada, the only other country sending 

 any considerable quantity, have increased fairly steadily, but 

 no country has, except temporarily, taken the place of the 

 United States. In 1910-11 the United States sent 5,343,000 

 cwt., and Canada 2,970,000 cwt., while Germany and Australia 

 each contributed nearly half a million cwts. 



The imports of barley differed little from those of the 

 previous year. Oats have fluctuated considerably in recent 

 years, and after rising steadily to 19,600,000 cwt. in 1909-10 

 from a drop to only 10,900,000 cwt. in 1906-7, fell back in 

 1910-11 to 16,642,000 cwt. The decrease is chiefly due to 

 smaller receipts from Russia and Germany. Of the total 

 quantity of barley available for consumption in the United 

 Kingdom, on the average less than a half is imported, while 

 of oats only about one-fifth is imported, and in the case of 

 both these cereals there has been no tendency to an increase 

 in the imports for many years. 



As regards maize, the 45,951,000 cwt. received showed a re- 

 covery from the relatively small imports of 1909-10 (34,642,000 

 cwt.), but the figure is still considerably below those of some 

 former years. 



