and Price of Wheat, 
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Table II. — Compaeing tbo Estimates of Home Produce founded on re- 
quirements for Consumption and Imports, with those founded on the 
annually adopted Estimates of Average Produce per Acre, over the 
United Kingdom. 
Aggregate Home Produce. 
Average Produce per Acre. 
Deduced from 
calculated 
requirements 
for Consumption 
and Imports. 
AccordinR to 
Annually 
Estimates of 
Average Produce 
per Acre. 
Annually 
Estimated, 
calculated 
according to re- 
quirements, &c. 
According 
to Con- 
sumption 
and 
Impoi-ts. 
According 
to 
Annually 
adopted 
Estimates. 
Annual 
Estimate 
+ or — 
Calculated. 
Averages for — 
8 Years, \ 
1852-59 / 
8 Years, \ 
1860-67 / 
Quarters. 
14,390,956 
13,312,217 
Quarters. 
14,310,779 
13,309,247 
Quarters. 
- 80,177 
- 2,970 
Bushels. 
28| 
28i 
Bushels. 
28 
2Si 
Bushels. 
- 01 
0 
8 Years, \ 
1868-75 / 
12,174,772 
12,699,155 
+ 524,383 
251 
26i 
+ 1^ 
3 Years, \ 
1876-78 / 
10,393,500 
11,166,910 
+ 773,410 
25J 
211 
+ If 
27 Years, \ 
1852-78 / 
12,970,521 
13,181,636 
+ 211,115 
27| 
271 
+ Oi 
Leaving out of view for the present any consideration of the 
inevitable discrepancies which must appear between the results 
of these two modes of estimate for individual years, it is obvious 
that, whether we compare the aggregate home produce founded 
on the requirements for consumption and on imports, with that 
founded on the annually adopted estimates of produce per acre, 
or compare the estimated average produce per acre itself arrived 
at in the two different ways, there is, taking the average of the 
twenty-seven years, comparatively little difference between the 
results thus variously arrived at. The annually adopted estimates 
of produce per acre over the United Kingdom give, however, 
the higher result. 
It is obvious that, to bring out still more close conformity of 
result from the two modes of estimate, we must either raise 
the estimate of requirement for consumption per head, or lower 
that of the average produce per acre over the United Kingdom 
for some of the years. Unfortunately, we have little else than 
judgment to aid us in deciding between these two alternatives. 
If, however, we compare the average result by the two methods 
for shorter periods — for the first, for the second, for the third 
eight years, and for the last three years, of the twenty-seven, for 
example — it is seen that the results of the two estimates agree 
very closely indeed for the first two periods of eight years each ; 
but that, for the third and fourth periods, those founded on the 
