in, 8,085,903 quarters, at 60 lb. the bushel 173,270
Flour and meal 207,180
Rice 40,817
Potatoes 42,440
Sago, arrowroot, &c. 5,000
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Total 468,707

Some portion of this quantity is doubtless consumed in the arts--as
starch for stiffening linens, &c., and for other purposes not coming
under the term of food, but I have purposely left out in the
calculation about 30,000 to 40,000 quarters of rice in the husk
annually imported.

Ireland took, in 1849, of foreign grain 2,115,129 quarters; 1,683,687
quarters in 1850; and 2,504,229 in 1851; as well as 256,837 cwts. of
various kinds of meal and flour in 1849; 220,107 cwts. in 1850; and
341,680 cwts. in 1851. England also supplied her with about 500,000
quarters of grain and 350,000 cwts. of meal in each of those years.

The comparative returns of the importations of grain into the United
Kingdom for the last four years, are as follows, in quarters:--

1852. 1851. 1850. 1849.
Wheat 3,068,892 3,812,009 3,738,995 3,845,378
Barley 656,737 829,564 1,035,903 1,381,008
Oats 995,480 1,198,529 1,154,473 1,267,106
Rye 10,023 24,609 98,836 240,566
Beans 371,250 318,502 443,306 457,933
Peas 107,017 99,399 181,419 234,366
Maize 1,479,891 1,807,636 1,277,071 2,224,459
Other sorts 8,085 3,432 868 1,150
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Quarters 6,667,375 8,124,280 7,930,871 9,651,966

The meal and flour imported in the same years, in cwts., were as
follows:--

1852. 1851. 1850. 1849.
Wheat 3,889,583 5,314,414 3,819,440 3,349,839
Barley 212 34 108 224
Oats 521 2,525 5,999 40,230
Rye 92 6,493 964 18,468
Indian corn 742 9,561 11,334 101,683
Other sorts 54 343 163 1,396