1904.] 



British Crops of 1904. 



521 



It will thus be seen that, as regards cereal crops, the conditions 

 in England and Scotland were materially different. South of the 

 Border all five crops proved deficient, three of them seriously so ; 

 north of the Border, on the other hand, none of the five crops 

 were below the mean. In Wales, again, four of the cereals were 

 above the average, beans only falling fractionally below the 

 ten years' mean. 



Roots and hay, the details of which are shown in the following 

 table, present a much more satisfactory result. The total pro- 

 duction of potatoes has only three times — in 1884, 1895 and 



Crop. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Estimated 



Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average of 

 the Ten Years 





1904. 



1903. 



1904. 



1903. 



1894-1903. 



Potatoes 



Tons. 

 3,5^8,254 



Tons. 

 2,913,713 



Tons. 

 6*29 



Tons. 

 5'i6 



Tons. 

 575 



Turnips and Swedes ... 



23,036,129 



19,927,460 



14*36 



1 2 -43 



1279 



Mangold 



7,481,402 



7,187,755 



1876 



17-90 



18-30 



Hay from clover, &c. 



Cwt. 

 69,941,268 



Cwt. 



73,429,384 



Cwt. 

 30*11 



Cwt. 

 30*44 



Cwt. 

 29'i3 



Hay from permanent 

 grass 



H7,5i3,9l6 



121,632,062 



24 '66 



25-58 



23*63 



Hops 



282,330 



421,068 



5-9i 



878 



9 - I2 



1901 — previously been exceeded. England and Scotland both 

 had an average yield per acre substantially above the mean, 

 but Wales was more unfortunate, farmers there securing only 

 4*84 tons per acre as against over 6* 11 and 7-13 in England 

 and Scotland respectively. An average of 7 tons per acre, 

 moreover, has never previously been noted in any of the three 

 divisions of Great Britain. 



The yield of turnips and swedes was heavy, being above the 

 average by more than a ton in England, by ij tons in Wales, 

 and by more than 2\ tons in Scotland, where the record crop 

 of 17 \ tons per acre was returned. Mangold were not so con- 

 spicuously good a crop as turnips ; nevertheless, they yielded 

 nearly half a ton above the mean. The crop was relatively best 

 in Wales, while upon the very small area in Scotland the results 

 were poor. 



