100 
Home Produce, Imports , Consumption, and 
yearly period, 1852-3 to 1859-60, no alteration is made. 
Over the second period, from 1860-1 to 1867-8, with an average 
population of between 29 and 30 millions, the corrections show 
a progressively higher population than the original returns, 
ranging from under 2,000 in the first, to nearly 300,000 in the 
last of the eight harvest-years, and an average annual addition 
of about 132,000. Over the third period, 1868-9 to 1875-6, 
there is still a progressively increasing addition, amounting to 
about 400,000 in the second harvest-year ; and then, after the 
census of 1871, there is at first a comparatively small increase, 
which only reached about 105,000 in the eighth year. Over 
the whole period of eight years, with an average population of 
nearly 32,000,000, the average annual increase, according to the 
amended as compared with the original returns, amounts to 
about 156,000. Over the fourth period, from 1876-7 to 
1883-4, there is some increase over the five years up to the 
census of 1881, and afterwards, that is, over the last three 
years of the period, a greater annual reduction ; the result 
being that, with an average population of rather more than 
34.500.000. the corrections add an average annual number of 
less than 12,000. Lastly, over the last eight years, 1884-5 to 
1891-2, there is, up to the census of 1891, a considerable 
deduction to be made from the earlier returns, amounting to 
more than 700,000 in 1889-90 ; but afterwards the reduction 
is quite insignificant. The general result, so far as this last 
eight-yearly period is concerned, is that, with an average popu- 
lation of about 37,000,000, the corrected figures, compared 
with the earlier, show an average annual reduction of about 
370.000. 
Taking the results for the forty years, the corrections in the 
direction of increase are so far compensated by those in the 
direction of reduction, that over the whole period they indicate 
an average annual reduction which amounts to only about 
14.000. It will not be surprising, therefore, that although the 
uncorrected and the corrected figures for the population show 
some slight difference in the calculated amount of wheat available 
for consumption per head over individual periods, they make 
none whatever when the average is taken over the forty years. 
This is illustrated in Table III. on the opposite page. 
It should be understood that the figures in the Table (III.) 
relate to the amounts of wheat available as recorded in Appendix- 
Table I. (p. 132), that is, without any alteration from the hitherto 
adopted relation of imported flour to wheat, and weights per 
bushel of 61 lb. for home, and of 60§ lb. for foreign wheat. 
Indeed, the figures in the first column are precisely the san\e 
