Variation in the Price and Supply of Wheat. 
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(Juarters. 
Wheat and flour, mliiccd to quarters of wheat .. .. 4,231,185 
Barley 870,780 
Oats and oatmeal 1,1G2,546 
Rye 99,510 
Peas 173,393 
Beaus 393,366 
Total (Maize not included) 0,930,786 
The average yearly importation for the eight years ending 
with 1860 :— 
Quarters. 
Wheat and flour, reduced to quarters of wheat .. ,. 5,100,000 
Barley 993,000 
Oats 934,000 
Eye 58,000 
Peas 155,000 
Beans 362,000 
Maize 1,489,000 
Total 9,091,000 
The average yearly importations of corn for the seven years 
from 1861 to 1867 inclusive : — 
Quarters. 
Wheat and flour, reduced to quarters of wheat .. .. 7,960,000 
Barley 1,510,000 
Oats 1,570,000 
Eye 48,000 
Peas 290,000 
Beans 384,000 
Maize 2,430,000 
Total 14,192,000 
In 1860, 1861, 1862, and 1863, the exports of wheat from 
Russia, Prussia, and the United States were very large, the 
latter country sending us as much as Russia and Prussia to- 
gether. In iSG-l and 1865, the imports of wheat from these two 
countries remained about stationary ; those from America and 
Egypt fell off. The great exports of wheat in those four years, 
both from Europe and America, were owing to the exceptional 
abundance of the harvests abroad and to our bad crops in 1860 
and 1861. As long ago as 1853, Prussia figured for nearly as 
large an export of wheat to England as in the recent great years, 
viz., more than a million quarters. In 1856 her exports dropped 
to about 200,000 quarters. So extreme is the variation in yield. 
The supplies from the northern ports of Russia, since the Crimean 
war, have been tolerably steady, within the range of from 155,000 
quarters to 475,000 quarters. Those from the southern ports 
have varied within the wide range of from 300,000 quarters to 
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