Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1876 — British Food-Supplies. [ARTICLE]

British Food-Supplies.

Indian coiur, oi l i«snr ricquired a permanent footing ip tlus country as an article of fwai*.’ Most 'Or -wmit we gekla sent from,tba X T nites jtotal imjxirt for 1875 being 20,500,000 hundred wreight, or three times' greater than the import ten years ago, The quantity of chfeese importeghas nearly doubled during the last eight years, the home stipf ply being wholly"landeqinlte to meet Die ordimuw pqquirsmente SSmWSU? Mh&m 741,0t)0,000—Uiat te, nine per cent. gr4at<t, than the quantity sent in 1874. Fivp, years back the number wa» but 400,000,800, and this rapid increasesUll coatinues, 1 although poultty-flanning ia now being dfedto&*Bd. MerepotatoaaftrriveoLWre in; 181$ than iu ths.ppevioim year by 710,1)00 hundred weight- Mostol P^atops are sql, dowp as couung from Fransd but a considerable quantity com* reaßy* via France from.fhe Southof Europe; ahawe only here mention—what Is afit generally known—that there is a fixed uniform charge of forty jpoonds si 2 ton midie for conveyance oi the costly -fruit and vegetables from Marseilles to London. This arrangement, of, course, much facilitates .the trade creases rapidly, hireing nearly douW«jd in the spacb Of ten yearer me’duty is only one penny a pound, so that the cocoa trade only yielded £41.559 to the revenue. Cur rants,- raisins and dried frubs. it was formerly Imagined, wore an index to the

weU.bemg of dm working classes who we *e supposed to hoy these in larger wage*‘ were Rood/ <€ut KJWiI an expired one. What vwalthe dried fruit trede is the hohndaacfe or otherwise of fresh fruits at; “»»t«ha#ta a good apple year currants *ma raisins are much less iu demand. As to wheat, We may mention that in lb6P ;

tha Government abolished the small remaining import duty on breadstuff* which inid hcen icti at the time al the repeal of the Corn Laws, pot at all so left as a source of revenue, but as a means of IcMptag an accurate record of the quantiUm Imported Tbf* duty was.three pence a hundred weight on grain and fonr and on m«U, and so great baa been the growth of our import of corn from ahroftd that if this small duty still existed- it would yield 'fll ,882,888 to the sSPhequcr .annually.— Land and Water (London.) ‘ *' * '