Viz.—19,135,000 arable acres, at £7 each,£133,945,000
27,000,000 acres of grass, at £6 each,162,000,000
15,000,000 do. wastes,5,000,000
£300,945,000

—Porter's Progress of the Nation, 158; 2d edition.

[25] In the eight months up to the 5th of September 1849, the quantities of foreign food taken out for home consumption have been—

Foreign wheat,3,387,596qrs.
Foreign flour,2,956,878cwt.
Foreign barley,1,018,858qrs.
Foreign oats,869,077"
Foreign rye,219,810"
Maize,1,735,778qrs.
Foreign bacon,349,727cwt.
Salted beef,119,867"
Salted pork,306,400"
Eggs, (number)73,605,759

All these amounts are largely, and the most important of them very largely, in advance of the imports of the first eight months of 1848.

Abstract of grain imported in quarters in seven months of free trade—

Wheat,3,387,596qrs.
Flour, (2,956,878 cwt.,)985,293"
Barley,1,018,858"
Oats,869,077"
Rye,219,810qrs.
Maize,1,735,778"
In eight months, seven of free trade,8,216,412qrs.

[26] Quarters of wheat and wheat-flour imported into Britain from 1807 to 1836, both inclusive:—

Quarters.
1807,379,833
1808,—
1809,424,709
1810,1,491,341*
1811,238,366
1812,244,385
1813,125,559
1814,681,333
1815,—
1816,227,263
1817,1,020,949*
1818,1,593,518*
1819,1,122,133
1820,34,274
1821,2
1822,—
1823,12,137
1824,15,777
1825,525,231
1826,315,892
1827,772,133
1828,842,050
1829,1,364,220*
1830,1,701,889*
1831,1,491,631
1832,325,425
1833,82,346
1834,64,653
1835,28,483
1836,24,826
1837,244,087
1838,1,834,452*
1839,2,590,734*
1840,2,389,732*
*Bad seasons.
AVERAGE QUARTERS.
1801 to 1810,600,946
1811 — 1820,458,578
1821 — 1830,534,292
1831 — 1835,398,509
1836 — 1840,1,992,548**
**Five bad years in succession.