Price of Wheat, over 40 Harvest-Years, 1852-3 to 1891-2. 105 
Turning to the results given in the last three columns of the 
Table, we there see the influence of the alteration on the estimate 
of the total available annual supply of wheat from all sources ; 
the last column showing the increase over the former estimates 
of the supply, on the assumption that the new calculations 
more nearly represent the truth. It will be seen that the 
change represents an annual increase of supply over former 
reckonings of about 113,000 quarters over the first eight 
years, of about 171,000 over the second, of nearly 175,000 
over the third, of more than 382,000 over the fourth, and of 
nearly 504,000 over the fifth eight-yearly period. Large as 
these amounts seem, especially in the later periods, it is satis- 
factory to know that they represent an increase in the total 
supply of only about 0 - 64 per cent, over the first eight years, 
084 per cent, over the second, 0-79 per cent, over the third, L5G 
over the fourth, and 2T3 per cent, over the fifth eight-yearly 
period ; whilst over the forty years they represent a difference of 
only 1-26 per cent. 
Nevertheless, these quantities do represent a veritable and 
not immaterial amendment of the former estimates. The effect 
of the adoption of the change on our previous estimates of the 
average annual consumption of wheat per head of the population 
is brought to view in Table V. The first column shows our 
annually adopted estimates of the consumption per head ; and 
the remaining columns the amounts available per head. The 
second column shows the amounts of the total available, derived 
from the home produce ; the third and fourth the amounts 
derived from imports, according to the old and the new calculation 
Table Y. 
Adopted 
average 
eon- 
sum p- 
tiou 
per 
head 
Available for consumption per head 
From 
home 
produce 
From imports 
Total from home 
produce and imports 
80-77 
flour to 
100 
wheat 
72 
flour to 
100 
wheat 
80*77 
flour to 
100 
wheat 
72 
flour to 
100 
wheat 
New 
results 
+ or — 
old 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Averages for : — 
8 yrs. 1852-3 to 1859-60 
510 
3-74 
1-33 
1-36 
507 
5-10 
+ 003 
8 „ 1860-1 „ 1867-8 
5-50 
3-31 
218 
2-23 
5-49 
5-54 
+ 005 
8 „ 1868-9 „ 1875-6 
5‘60 
2-93 
2-66 
2-70 
5-59 
5-63 
+ 0-04 
8 ., 1876-7 „ 1883-4 
5-65 
203 
3-63 
3-71 
5-66 
5-74 
+ 0-08 
8 „ 1884-5 „ 1891-2 
5-65 
1-83 
3-83 
3-95 
5-66 
5-78 
+ 012 
40 „ 1852-3 „ 1891-2 
5-50 
2-77 
2-73 
2-79 
5-50 
5-56 
+ 0 06 
