Price of Wheat, over 40 Harvest-Years , 1852-3 to 1891-2. 107 
per bushel for home produce, and of 60§ lb. per bushel for im- 
ported wheat, are adopted ; and the last two summary Tables 
(IV.- and V.) indicate the extent of the change expressed in 
quarters, or bushels, of the above-mentioned weights per bushel. 
The amounts so expressed, of course, represent a real increase, 
both in the aggregate quantities available, and in the consump- 
tion per head, compared with those previously assumed. On 
the other hand, although the adoption for the past, as in the 
Appendix-Table II. (facing p. 132), and in all future estimates 
as we propose, of a uniform weight of 60 lb. per bnshel, both for 
home and for foreign wheat, will materially alter the figures, 
the alteration so made will not represent any change in actual 
quantity. 
The Results for the Forty Years, according to the 
RECENTLY ADOPTED STANDARDS OR CORRECTIONS. 
We have now discussed the influence, on our former estimates, 
of corrections made by the Registrar-General of the originally 
recorded numbers of the population, and it has been shown to 
be comparatively immaterial. We have also considered the 
influence on the past estimates, of the change adopted by the 
Departments, in the calculation of imported flour into its equi- 
valent of wheat, and this has been found to involve, though a 
comparatively small, yet by no means an immaterial, correction. 
We propose now to apply the weight of 60 lb. per bushel to the 
whole of the estimates for the past forty years, an alteration 
which, as we have pointed out, involves no change in actual 
quantity, but only in the mode of representation ; and it is from 
the results as so calculated, that we shall draw illustrations as 
to the beaming and the importance of the facts which the inquiry, 
extended over so long a period, brings to light. We shall also 
point out what changes will be adopted in future estimates. 
As already intimated, the Appendix-Table II. (facing p. 132) 
gives the whole of the results for the forty years, embodying the 
corrections in the number of the population which have been 
referred to, those due to the altered estimate of the relation of 
flour to wheat, and, lastly, adopting a weight of 60 lb. per 
bushel for both the home produce and the imported wheat. 
For the details the reader is referred to the Table itself ; but, 
as in the discussion of the various points hitherto, the bearing 
of the various results will be founded on summaries from the 
detailed Table, which will be embodied in the text. 
