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THE recent announcement by Mr. R. H. Rew that this country produces about one-half of its own food lends interest to the volumes of statistics periodically issued by the Board of Agriculture, setting forth the respective amounts of agricultural produce raised at home and imported from abroad, and the home production of agricultural produce. Even those who professed to be experts in the matter were not prepared to find that so much of our food was home-grown. There is no doubt that the wheat statistics had been responsible for the misconception. Only about one-fifth of our wheat is supplied by the British farmer, the rest all coming from abroad. It had been too hastily assumed that the other imports of food supplies worked out in the same proportion.
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The Wheat Supply of Great Britain . Nature 90, 678–679 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090678a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090678a0