Practical Agriculture. 471 = 205 
From the Trade and Navigation Accounts we find what were 
e imports of wheat and wheat flour available for consumption 
ter deducting the exports. These, in round numbers, are 
ven in my second Table, in the third column. Then, adding 
lumns two and three together, we have the probable total 
lantity of wheat and flour available for consumption in the 
lited Kingdom in each year. In the last column I have 
ited the average price of British wheat in 150 market towns 
a period of twelve months, extending from July 1st to June 
)th, that is, from just before harvest in one year to the same 
me in the year following. 
"srnjATED Consumption" and Home and Foreign Supply of Wheat 
for the UxiTED Kingdom. 
Total home 
and foreign 
supply. 
HarrestYear. | Home Produce Imports of Wheat 
■^nT ^vlr 1 ' available for 1 and Flour, 
„™ „Vi' : Consumption in , deducting Exports 
August Ji. Quarters. in Quarters. 
1866- 7 
1867- 8 
1868- 9 
1869- 70 
1870- 1 
1871- 2 
1872- .S 
1873- 4 
1874- 5 
1875- 6 
1876- 7 
Mean cf 1 1 
Years . . 
11,440,000 
10,390,000 
15,790,000 
12,490,000 
14,100,000 
11,970,000 
10,110,000 
10,550,000 
13,700,000 
9,124,000 
9,665,000 
7.600,000 
9,010,000 
7,880,000 
9,580,000 
7,950,000 
9,. 320, 000 
11,720,000 
11,230,000 
11,640,000 
13,940,000 
12,150,000 
Total available 
for Consumption 
in Quarters. 
Average Price 
of British 
Whpat for 12 
Months, July l 
to June 30. 
19,040,000 
19,400,000 
23,670,000 
22,070,000 
22,050,000 
21,290,000 
21,830,000 
21,780,000 
25,340,000 
23,064,000 
21,815,000 
«. d. 
58 0 
69 3 
51 8 
45 11 
53 5 
55 
57 
61 
46 
46 
55 
I 11,757,000 10,183,000 \ 21,940,000 
I I 
54 6 
It will be seen that on an average of eleven years, the annual 
readth of land under wheat has been 3,712,000 acres; and the 
ields " under average " have been more numerous than the 
ields " over average," so that in the last eleven years the crop 
as averaged 27^ instead of 29^ bushels per acre. Our standard 
verage wheat crop, after deduction made for seed, is 12,664,000 
'uarters ; but the average of the last ten years has not been more 
ban 11,757,000 quarters. The average importation (less exports) 
■r the last ten years has been about 10,183,000 quarters ; but 
tr the last few years we have imported about 1^ to 2^ million 
uarters a year more than the average, the maximum of 
4,081,175 quarters of wheat and wheat-flour, not deducting 
xports, having been attained in the harvest year ended August 
1st, 1876. 
The estimated total consumption averages 21,940,000 quarters ; 
