Price of Wheat, over 40 Harvest-Years, 1852-3 to 1891-2. 97 
population for each year has been taken as adopted in our previous 
papers and annual estimates, which are, as has been explained, 
subject to alteration in accordance with corrections made from 
time to time by the Registrar-General, and which will be carried 
out in subsequent Tables. 
The first point to notice in the Table is the marked reduc- 
tion from period to period in the amount and proportion of the 
total requirement for consumption which is supplied by the 
home-crop. Thus, according to the figures, 3 ’74 bushels were 
obtained per head per annum from the home produce over the 
first eight years, and only T83 bushel, or less than half as much, 
Table II. 
Available 
for consumption 
per head 
Adopted 
total 
requirements 
per head 
per annum 
From 
home 
produce 
From 
imports 
Total 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Averages for : — 
S years 1852-3 
to 1859-60 
3-74 
1-33 
5-07 
510 
1860-1 
to 1867-8 . 
3-31 
218 
5-49 
5 "50 
8 „ 
1868-9 
to 1875-6 . 
2-93 
2-66 
5-59 
5-60 
8 „ 
1876-7 
to 1883-4 . 
2-03 
363 
566 
5-65 
5 „ 
1884-5 
to 188S-9 . 
1-83 
369 
5‘52 
565 
37 „ 
1852-3 
to 1888-9 . 
2-85 
261 
5-46 
5-49 
3 
1889-90 to 1891-2 . 
1-83 
4-07 
5-90 
565 
40 „ 
1852-3 
to 1891-2 . 
2-77 
273 
5-50 
5-50 
5 years 1884-5 
to 1888-9 . 
1-83 
3-69 ' 
5-52 
5 ’65 
3 „ 
1889-90 to 1891-2 . 
1-83 
407 
5-90 1 
5 65 
8 „ 
1884-5 
to 1891-2 . 
1-83 
3-83 
6‘66 
5'65 
over the last eight years of the forty. On the other hand, 
imports supplied an average of only T33 bushel per head per 
annum over the first eight years of the forty, and 3 83 bushels, 
or not much less than three times as much, over the last eight. 
Let us now turn to the third column, showing the total 
amounts available per head per annum from home and foreign 
sources taken together, and compare the results there given 
with those for the same periods in the last column, according to 
which the estimates of the requirement for consumption have 
been calculated each year as forecast. It is seen that, over each 
of the five eight-yearly periods, the amounts calculated from the 
estimated home-crop and tlqo subsequently recorded imports, 
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