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SIR J. B. LAWES forwards to us the following information:— “The very low prices during the last few years have, it is supposed, induced farmers to use a not inconsiderable quantity of their wheat as food for stock. The amount so withdrawn from human consumption is quite unknown. It has been estimated by some to be considerably less than one million, and by others to be even as much as two million quarters within the harvest year. Whatever the amount may be, it is evident that a new element of uncertainty is thus introduced into our estimates of the quantity of imported wheat required to supply the deficiency of the homegrown crop.
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The Wheat Crop of 1887. Nature 36, 622–623 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036622a0
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