§ Mr. G. LAMBERTasked the President of the Board of Agriculture what is the total human consumption in quarters of corn by the United Kingdom in a normal year; what is the weekly consumption; how many weeks' supply does the homegrown product supply; and what is the balance to be supplied from abroad?
§ Mr. CLYNESI have been asked to reply. The average use of wheat for human consumption may be reckoned at 31,000,000 to 32,000,000 quarters a year for a period of years previous to the War. The weekly consumption, on this basis, is slighlty over 600,000 quarters. The home crop for the same period affords one-fifth of the total supply, being sufficient, approximately, for eleven weeks' consumption. Thus the balance in a normal year which has to be met by imports from abroad, similarly stated, amounts to a supply sufficient for forty-one weeks.