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improved yield per acre. Scotland especially did well, the 

 yield of 38"04 bushels per acre being quite a record, beating 

 even last year's high figure of 37*15 bushels and being over 2 

 bushels above the ten-year average. Wales also exceeded the 

 decennial average, but England, although improving by one- 

 third of a bushel over 1913, was nevertheless slightly below her 

 average yield per acre in 1904-1913. The reduction in the 

 acreage in England quite outweighed the effect of the small 

 improvement in the out-turn per acre, and the production in 

 that country declined by over 142,000 quarters. 



Oats more than made up for the loss of area, and yielded in 

 Great Britain a crop greater than 1913 by 323,000 quarters, an 

 increase of well over 2 per cent. As with barley, Scotland 

 gave an exceptionally high yield per acre, which at 40-l(S 

 bushels was no less than 2^ bushels above the average of the 

 previous ten years, and was 1| bushels above the goo d results 

 of 1913. England, although showing almost as great an 

 advance over her 1913 yield per acre, had still an under-average 

 crop as compared with the last ten years. Taking the previous 

 three years only, however, England's yield was very satis- 

 factory, the 40"16 bushels per acre standing out well against 

 the 39-03, 35-56, and 38-51 bushels in 1911, 1912, and 1913, 

 and being sufficient to give a total production greater by 

 153,000 quarters in 1914 than in 1913, notwithstanding the 

 reduction of 42,000 acres in the area sown. 



Like the cei'eals. Beans in Great Britain as a whole gave 

 over-average yields in 1914, and were as much as 2 bushels 

 better than the under-average yields of 1913. This, in con- 

 junction with the greater acreage, made the total production of 

 England in 1914 heavier by 168,000 quarters, or 18 per cent. 



Peas were a very poor crop, the yield being only 23 bushels 

 per acre, which was over 3^ bushels below average, and the 

 total production in England declined by just on 50,000 

 quarters, and was the lowest for many years. 



A much more satisfactory yield was obtained, however, for 

 Potatoes, the average return per acre of which although in 

 England slightly below 1913 was still well over the decennial 

 average for that country, as was also the case for Scotland and 

 Wales, with the result that 1914 not only showed the largest 

 acreage on record, but also the largest total production. Com- 

 pared with 1913 the increase was over 60,000 tons (2 per cent.) 

 in England and Wales, and over 106,000 tons (11 per cent.) in 

 Scotland. 



Turnips and Swedes, although showing an improved yield 

 over 1913 of | ton in England, remained an under-average 

 crop both there and in Great Britain as a whole. Scotland did 

 particularly badly in proportion to her generally superior 



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