STATISTICS 
AFFECTING BEITISH AGEICULTUEAL INTEEESTS. 
Eevised by W. Leigh Bernard, Barrister-at-Law, F.S.S. 
Contents. 
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Prefatory Note i 
Meteorological Reports and 
Tables, 1886 ni-x 
Hay Harvest Forecasts, 1886 xi-xm 
Corn, Importations, Sales, and 
Prices xiv 
British Wheat Eeturns and 
Prices, 1880-86 xv 
Average Prices of Wheat, 
Barley, and Oats, in each 
Week of 1886 xvi 
Imports of Corn and Flour, 
1882-86 XYii 
Average Prices of Consols, 
Wheat, and of Meat, and 
Number of Paupers 
relieved, &c., in each 
Quarter, 1884-86 xviii 
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Diagram of Fluctuations in 
Prices of Wheat, 1886 xix 
Eeturns of Acreage under 
Crops, and Number of 
Cattle, &c., in 1884-86 xx-xxi 
Beasts Exhibited and Prices 
realised at Christmas Mar- 
kets, 1845-86 xxn 
Average Prices of British 
Corn, 1867-86 xxii 
Miscellaneous Foreign and " 
Colonial Productions Im- 
ported, 1883-86 xxrii 
Dead Meat Imported, 1884-86 xxiy 
Bitter and Cheese Imports, 
1872-86 XXV 
Dairy Produce, 1886 xxvi 
Prices of Butter and Cheese, 
1878-87 xxvm 
Peefatoky Note. 
The practical importance of the statistics bearing on British 
Agriculture, in connection with the agricultural industries of the 
world, having been brought under the consideration of the 
Council, it has been decided to enlarge the number of subjects 
treated on in future numbers of the Journal, and, so far as the 
nature of the difficult masses of figures to be handled will 
permit, to condense the statistical matter into a shape calculated 
to render it digestible food for thought. In dealing with 
" statistics," it may perhaps be useful to recollect that the term 
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