Note 631 — Chapter XX
Reading edition
The abnormal prices during the Crimean War cannot fairly be taken into account. The home and foreign supplies of wheat and flour from 1839-46 were:—
Home Supplies.Foreign Supplies.
qrs.qrs.
1839-40 4,022,000 1,762,482
1840-1 3,870,648 1,925,241
1841-2 3,626,173 2,985,422
1842-3 5,078,989 2,405,217
1843-4 5,213,454 1,606,912
1844-5 6,664,368 476,190
1845-6 5,699,969 2,732,134
(Tooke, History of Prices, iv. 414.)
1844-5 was a very abundant crop, and the threatened repeal of the Corn Laws induced farmers to send all the corn possible to market.