468 IMPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. 

as the principal exporter of wheat to the British market, 
in the past year it supplied 27 per cent. (18,524,000 cwts.), 
and the United States sent 47 per cent. (32,588,000 cwts.) 
of the total supply of wheat grain. India, which supplied 
8,192,000 cwts. in 1899, provided only 9,000 cwts. in the 
past year. Russia, in former seasons a _ considerable 
contributor, has not been an important factor in this 
trade since 1897; in 1900 the Russian consignments only 
amounted to 4,421,000 cwts. About 83 per cent. of the wheat 
flour came from the United States (17,871,000 cwts.), the 
supplies from Canada (1,195,000 cwts.) and from Austria- 
Hungary (1,168,000 cwts.) being comparatively unimportant. 
The barley imports of the past season are the lowest 
since 1892. The total for 1900 shows a decline of more than 
30 per cent. from the imports of 1898 and of 28 per cent. from 
the average of the five preceding years. The principal feature 
jn the trade was a decline of over 3,000,000 cwts. in the ship- 
ments from Russia, which amounted to 4,653,000 cwts., but 
this deficiency was nearly made up by increased import- 
ations from Turkey and the United States, whence we ob- 
tained 4,203,000 cwts. and 4,277,000 cwts. respectively. 
The imports of oats, were 28°7 per cent. above those of 
last year, and reached a figure higher than any previously 
recorded. Over 53 percent. came from Russia (10,674,000. 
cwts.), 28 per cent. from the United States (5,715,000 cwts.) 
and 74 per cent. from Canada (1,518,000 cwts.). 
Of maize, the imports dropped by nearly 14 per cent., or 
8,600,000 cwts. The total was not, however, materially 
below the average for the past five years. From Roumania 
the receipts were only 2,275,000 cwts. as compared with 
7,403,000 cwts. in 1899, while the shipments from the United 
States (38,422,000 cwts.), Argentina (6,526,000 cwts.), and 
Canada (4,795,000 cwts.) were all on a lower scale than in 
the preceding year. 
The average declared value of barley is given as 6s. 1d. 
per cwt., or 4d. more than in 1899, while oats work out at 
5s. 24d. (a fall of 2$d.), and maize at 4s. 7d. per cwt. (a rise 
of 5d.). 
The imports of maize meal, although somewhat less than 
