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HOME PRODUCE, IMPORTS, CONSUMP- 
TION, AND PRICE OF WHEAT, OVER 
FORTY HARVEST-YEARS, 1852-53 TO 
1891-92. 
Contents. 
Page 
INTRODUCTION 77 
THE DATA REQUIRED 79 
RECONSIDERATION OF THE DATA 83 
The Estimates of the Average Produce of Wheat per Acre in the 
United Kingdom, each Year 83 
THE RESULTS FOR THE FORTY YEARS, ACCORDING TO THE PREVIOUSLY 
ADOPTED STANDARDS 91 
EFFECTS OF THE APPLICATION TO OUR PREVIOUS RECORDS AND 
ESTIMATES, OF THE RECENTLY ADOPTED STANDARDS OR 
CORRECTIONS 98 
THE RESULTS FOR THE FORTY YEARS, ACCORDING TO THE RECENTLY 
ADOPTED STANDARDS OR CORRECTIONS 107 
Area under Wheat in the United Kingdom ...... 108 
Average yield of Wheat per acre in the United Kingdom . . . 109 
The Aggregate Home Crop, and the Amount of it available for Con- 
sumption 110 
The Imports of Wheat, and of Flour reckoned as Wheat . . .112 
Total Wheat (Home and Imported) available for Consumption . .114 
The Population, and the Requirement of Wheat q>er head per annum lit! 
Price per Quarter, and Aggregate Value, of the Total Wheat annually 
available ; also the Aggregate Cost, an d the Cost per Head, of the 
annual Requirement 119 
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 124 
appendix-tables (I., p. 132; II., facing p. 132) 132 
Introduction. 
In 1863, and each year since, an estimate of the Home Produce 
of Wheat in the United Kingdom has been published by us in 
the daily and agricultural papers soon after harvest. An esti- 
mate of the total requirement for consumption within the then 
current harvest-year has at the same time been given ; also an 
estimate, as forecast, of the requirement from stocks and imports 
within the harvest-year. In 1863, we gave in this Journal 
(Vol. VI., 2nd Series, Part 2) records and estimates on the 
subject for a period of sixteen harvest-years, from 1852-53 to 
1867-68 inclusive. In 1880, in the Journal of the Statistical 
Society for June, and some months later in this Journal (Vol. 
XVL, 2nd Series, Part 2, 1880), with further particulars for the 
then current harvest-year added, the estimates and records were 
brought up to 1879-80 inclusive, completing a period in the 
