Exports. Imports.
1774 47,961 803,844
1776 376,249 444,121
1780 400,408 219,093
1782 278,955 133,663
1783 104,274 852,389
1784-8 large excess of imports, mainly oats
1789 652,764 478,426

the last year when exports of all kinds of corn exceeded imports.[758]

To sum up, according to these figures, England's exports of wheat
regularly exceeded her imports from 1697 until 1757, with the
exception of the years 1728-9; then they fluctuated till 1789, the
last year in which exports of wheat exceeded imports, and as the same
year is the last time when our exports of all kinds of corn exceeded
our imports, England at that date ceased to be an exporting country.[759]

FOOTNOTES:

[757] McPherson, _Annals of Commerce_, iii. 198.

[758] Ibid. iii. 674; iv. 216, 532.

[759] The excess of exports of wheat in 1808 was accidentally due to
the requirements of the army in Spain.

APPENDIX III

AVERAGE PRICES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER OF BRITISH CORN IN ENGLAND
AND WALES, IN EACH YEAR FROM 1771 TO 1907 INCLUSIVE, ACCORDING TO
THE RETURNS OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

YEARS. WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS.
s. d. s. d. s. d.

1771 48 7 26 5 17 2
1772 52 3 26 1 16 8
1773 52 7 29 2 17 8
1774 54 3 29 4 18 4
1775 49 10 26 9 17 0

1776 39 4 20 9 15 5
1777 46 11 21 1 16 1
1778 43 3 23 4 15 7
1779 34 8 20 1 14 5
1780 36 9 17 6 13 2

1781 46 0 17 8 14 1
1782 49 3 23 2 15 7
1783 54 3 31 3 20 5
1784 50 4 28 8 18 10
1785 43 1 24 9 17 8

1786 40 0 25 1 18 6
1787 42 5 23 4 17 2
1788 46 4 22 8 16 1
1789 52 9 23 6 16 6
1790 54 9 26 3 19 5

1791 48 7 26 10 18 1
1792 43 0 27 7 16 9
1793 49 3 31 1 20 6
1794 52 3 31 9 21 3
1795 75 2 37 5 24 5

1796 78 7 35 4 21 10
1797 53 9 27 2 16 3
1798 51 10 29 0 19 5
1799 69 0 36 2 27 6
1800 113 10