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CONSUMPTION OF OATMEAL.

The three following minutes are of Irish con- sumption:—That a man, his wife, and four child- ren, consumed 4olb. a week of oatmeal; of 208olb. in fifty-two a being 391lb. per head: ‘€ a barrel of oats be four bushels(as fe is GE

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wheat), and yields Solb.. meal, it 1s Zolb. for

aolb. of cath At this rate the 391!b. of meal 1s the product o1 f 78alb. of oats, which divided by 40,

gives 19 bushels and r-half for the c nsumption

per head per annum.

By aks account, a barrel of oats lasts such a family a week: this, at four bushels the barrel, is 34 bushels per head per annun

By a third account, it 1s a ice of oatmeal per diem: this is eleven three-eighth bushels per annum of meal, or twenty-two three-fourths of oats. This account agrees exactly with SmMiruH's estimate.

The price of meal in Scotland, and in the north of England, agrees well with his account: that price has been from 4s. 6d. to 5s. a stone« 14lb. while oats have been at 3s. 8d.,&c. per bushel. This implies that a bushel of oats does not yield a stone of meal thzs year; at which pro- portion, the consumption per head per annum must be at least 25 bushels. In Mr. CarHERWoopD’s corn tabl

tac| See> i ee. it 3 lt te eaters es& land, Feb. 12, 1800, the average price of oats Is