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THE PRICE OF ENG- 
LISH CORN IN 1893. 
Averages for 1893. 
s. d. 
Wheat 26 4 
Barley 25 7 
Oats 18 9 
(Each space between the lines of the diagram 
represents fourpence.) 
The diagram shows the weekly 
Imperial average price of Wheat in 
the past year ; the downward course 
is continued from 1892. The annual 
average has fallen 3s. 11c?. a quarter; 
in 1892 wheat was 30s. 3d., but last 
year it was only 26s. 4 d. a quarter. 
In 1883 the annual average was 
41s. 7 d. and in 1873 it was 58s. 8 d. 
— more than double the price in the 
past year. The highest weekly ave- 
rage was 27s. 1 0 d., on October 7 last, 
and the lowest was 24s. 8 d., on 
March 25, being a fluctuation of 
only 3s. 2d., whereas in 1892 it was 
10s. 8 d. a quarter. The annual 
average price of Barley was 25s. 7 d., 
being only Id. a quarter under that 
of 1892. The highest price was 
29 s. 6 d., on October 21 and 28, and 
the lowest 20s. 3d., on July 22, a 
fluctuation of 9s. 3d . ; in 1892 it 
was 8s. 4c?. It is remarkable that 
the price of Barley has exceeded that 
of Wheat twenty-five weeks out of 
fifty-two in the past year, in fact the 
last week in 1893 Barley was 29s. 2d., 
and Wheat only 26s. 6c?. a quarter. 
The annual average price of Oats w T as 
18s. 9c?., or Is. lc?. under that of 
1892. The highest price was 22s. 9c?., 
on July 15, and the lowest was 
16s. 8c?., on January 7, 1893, a fluc- 
tuation of 6s. lc?. a quarter ; in 1892 
it was 5s. 11c?. The Imperial average 
price of Corn in 1893 was — Wheat 
26s. 4 d., Barley 25s. 7c?., and Oats 
18s. 9c?. a quarter. According to 
Willich’s Tithe Tables, the Septennial 
Tithe Bent Charge is 74?. 3s. 9^c?. per 
100?., or 11s. 0 jc?. lower than last 
year. The average for the fifty-eight 
years from the commutation in 1836 
is 99?. 6s. 7\d. per 100?. 
Henry Allnctt. 
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