104 
Home Produce, Imports, Consumption , and 
Appendix-Table I. (p. 132). with the corrected ones in Ap- 
pendix-Table II. facing (p. 132). 
The following Table (IV.) summarises, for each eight-yearly 
period, and for the forty years, the effect on the results of adopt- 
ing throughout, 72 flour for 100 wheat, instead of, as formerly, 
taking 3i cwt. Hour to a quarter of wheat, corresponding to 
80-77 flour to 100 wheat. The first column shows the average 
amount of wheat per annum for each period, due to imported 
flour on the old calculation, and the second column correspond- 
ing results on the new basis. The right-hand division of the 
Table shows — in the first column the total available supplies of 
wheat, home and foreign together, with the imported flour 
reckoned according to the old factor ; in the second column the 
same, but with imported flour reckoned into wheat by the new 
factor ; and in the last column the difference. In all cases the 
imported wheat is reckoned in quarters of 485J lb., which corre- 
spond to G0§ lb. per bushel. 
Table IV. 
Imported wheat-meal 
and flour, as wheat 
Total available wheat, home 
and imported 
34 cwt. 
wheat 
flour = 
1 qr. 
wheat ; or 
80-77 to 
100 
34 cwt. 
wheat 
flour = 
1 qr. 
wheat ; or 
80-77 to 
100 
72 flour to 
100 Wheat 
72 flour to 
100 wheat 
New cal- 
culations 
+ or — 
old 
Averages for : — 
8 years 1852-3 to 1859-G0 . 
8 „ 1880-1 „ 1887-8 . 
8 „ 1888-9 „ 1875-8 . 
8 „ 1876-7 „ 1883-4 . 
8 „ 1884-5 „ 1891-2 . 
Quarters 
928,900 
1,404,657 
1,434,758 
3,139,854 
4,630,006 
Quarters 
1,042,035 
1,675,738 
1,609,504 
3,522,272 
5,193,917 
Quarters 
17,814,000 
20,301,099 
22,219,508 
24,499,335 
26,438,261 
Quarters 
17,927,135 
20,472,180 
22,394,254 
24,881,753 
27,002,172 
Quarters 
+ 113,135 
+ 171,081 
+ 174,746 
+ 382,418 
+ 563,911 
40 „ 
1852-3 
, 1891-2 . 
2,307,635 
2,588,693 
22,254,441 
22,535,499 
+281,058 
The first two columns show that, over the first eight years, 
1852-3 to 1859-60, the amount of wheat due to imported 
flour was less than 1,000,000 quarters; during the next two 
eight-yearly periods it rose to about li million quarters; dur- 
ing the fourth period to considerably over 3,000,000, or more 
than twice as much as formerly, and over the last eight years to 
about 5,000,000 quarters, or about 1^ time as much as over the 
immediately preceding eight years. Lastly, the average per 
annum over the total period of forty years has corresponded to 
rather under million quarters according to the old, and to 
over 2J? million quarters according to the new calculation. 
