Our Imports of Feeding Stuffs. 



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beans and pease are under-estimates, hence the total of 

 4,495,000 tons may be regarded as not exaggerating the actual 

 position. It would be obviously impossible to produce this 

 quantity of feeding stuffs, or its equivalent in other materials 

 in this country without displacing products already culti- 

 vated. The imports of fodder corn alone, excluding maize, 

 would, on the basis of the average annual yield per acre 

 in Great Britain in 1886-95, represent the production of 

 2,250,000 acres. 



