390 Home Produce, Imports, and Consumption of Wheat. 
The main conclusions from tlie whole inquiry, as brought out 
by the comparison of the results relating to the first and second 
periotls of eight years each, may be briefly enumerated as 
follows : — 
1. There has been a reduction in the area under wheat in 
each of the three main divisions of the United Kingdom ; very 
large, proportionally, in both Scotland and Ireland, but compara- 
tively small in England and Wales. 
2. There has, pretty certainly, been a small increase in the 
yield per acre in England and Wales, and probably in Scotland 
also, hnt a marked diminution in Ireland ; leaving, however, 
still a small increased yield per acre in the United Kingdom 
collectively. 
3. There has been a diminution in the aggregate of home- 
produced wheat in the United Kingdom ; proportionally small 
in England and Wales, very considerable in Scotland, and more 
considerable still in Ireland. 
4. Throughout the United Kingdom the imports have in- 
creased enormously of late years, and in a much greater propor- 
tion in Ireland than in Great Britain. 
5. The aggregate amount of wheat consumed annually in the 
United Kingdom has increased very considerably ; and the ratio 
of increase would appear to be much the same in Gieat Britain 
and in Ireland. 
6. In the United Kingdom, collectively, the population has 
increased considerably ; in much the greater proportion in 
England and Wales, less than half as rapidly in Scotland, whilst 
in Ireland there has been a diminution. 
7. The proportion of the total wheat consumed per head of 
the population, which is provided by home produce, has much 
diminished throughout the United Kingdom ; in by far the 
greatest degree in Ireland, very largel}' in Scotland, but much 
less in England and Wales than in either. 
8. In every division of the United Kingdom the proportion of 
the total wheat consumed per head which is supplied from 
foreign sources, has enormously increased ; in by far a greater 
dptfree in Ireland than in cither of the other divisions of the 
Kingdom. 
9. The actual consumption of wheat per head in the United 
Kingdom has notably increased ; more than 20 per cent, in 
Ireland, but little more than 5 per cent, in Great Britain. 
!■ 10. Taking the average of the last eight years the figures show 
the annual consumption of wheat per head of the population to 
have been about G bushels in England and Wales, scarcely 4|- 
bubhels in Scotland, and only about 3^- bushels in Ireland ; or, for 
