Price of Wheat, over 40 Harvest-Years, 1852-3 to 1891-2. lOl 
as those given in Table II. (p. 97) ; aud those in the second 
are only altered in accordance with the corrected number of the 
population. It will be seen that whilst over the first and 
fourth periods the two columns show identical amounts, over 
Table III. 
Total wheat available for con- 
sumption per head 
Calculated on 
population as 
formerly given 
Calculated on 
corrected 
population 
Averages for : — 
Bushels 
Bushels 
8 years 1862-3 to 1869-60 . 
5-07 
507 
8 „ 1860-1 „ 1867-8 . 
6-49 
5-47 
8 „ 1868-9 „ 1876-6 . 
5-59 
5-56 
8 „ 1876-7 „ 1883-4 . 
5-66 
5-66 
8 „ 1884-5 „ 1891-2 . 
5'66 
5-72 
40 „ 1852-3 „ 1891-2 . 
5-50 
5-50 
the second and third periods, the second (corrected) shows 
slightly lower figures, and over the fifth period the second 
column shows a slightly higher amount. The two calculations 
show, however, absolutely identical amounts reckoned over the 
total period of forty year3. 
The next point to consider is the effect, upon our past esti- 
mates, of the amount of wheat available for consumption, of the 
altered relation recently adopted by the Boards of Trade, Cus- 
toms, and Agriculture, in calculating the imported “ wheat-meal 
and flour ” into their equivalent of wheat. 
We have been informed that wheat imported as wheat and 
returned in cwts. was, until recently, converted into quarters by 
multiplying the cwts. by 3 and dividing by 13. This gives 
the weight of the quarter = 485^ lb., corresponding to 60§ lb. 
per bushel. Throughout the period of our inquiry, we have 
frequently checked the relation between the official returns of 
imported wheat in cwts. and its recorded equivalent in quarters, 
and we have always found it to be that above stated. Wheat 
imported as wheat has, therefore, been recorded in quarters of 
60§ lb. per bushel. 
Then as to the calculation of imported £; wheat-meal and 
flour ” into its equivalent of wheat. In Yol. VI. of Tooke and 
Newmarch’s History of Prices, published in 1857, they say 
(pp. 466-7), that “ flour ” returned in cwts. is calculated into 
imperial quarters of wheat at the rate of 3w cwts. of flour from 
