APPENDIX III 353 



YEARS. WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. 



s. d. s. d, s. d. 



1896 ... 26 2 ... 22 II ... 14 9 



1897 ... 30 2 ... 23 6 ... 16 ii 



1898 . ... 34 o ... 27 2 ... 18 5 



1899 ... 25 8 ... 25 7 ... 17 o 



1900 ... 26 II ... 24 ii ... 17 7 



1901 ... 26 9 ... 25 2 ... 18 5 



1902 ... 28 i ... 25 8 ... 20 2 



1903 ... 26 9 ... 22 8 ... 17 2 



1904 ... 28 4 ... 22 4 ... 16 4 



1905 ... 29 8 ... 24 4 ... 17 4 



1906 ... 28 3 ... 24 2 ... 18 4 



1907 ... 30 7 ... 25 I ... 18 10 



APPENDIX IV 

 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION 



GREGORY KING, at the end of the seventeenth century, estimated the 

 acreage of England and Wales at 39,000,000 not at all a bad estimate, 

 the area, excluding water, according to the Board of Agriculture Returns 

 of 1907, being 37,130,344. The different estimates by Grew, Templeman, 

 Petty, Young, Halley, Middleton, and others varied between 31,648,000 

 and 46,916,000 acres. The last, that of Arthur Young, was actually 

 adopted by Pitt for his estimate of the income-tax. 1 



Caird in 1850 2 estimated the cultivated lands of England at 27,000,000 

 acres (in 1907 they were 24,585,455 acres), cultivated thus : 



Permanent grass I3,333,ooo 



Arable 13,667,000 



the latter being divided as follows : 



Acres. Bushels, Produce, 



per acre. quarters. 



Wheat 3,416,750 27 11,531,531 



Barley 1,416,750 38 6,729,562 



Oats and rye 2,000,000 44 11,000,000 



Clover and seeds 2,277,750 



Beans and peas 1,139,000 30 4,271,250 



Turnips, mangolds, and 



potatoes 2,116,750 



Rape and fallow 1,300,000 



1 C. Wren Hoskyns, Pamphlet on Agricultural Statistics, p. 19. 



2 English Agriculture in 1850-1, p. 521. Cf. above, p. 331. 



