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OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. — Produce of Crops in each 

 County in Great Britain in 1903. Price $d. 



This publication, which is issued in advance of the Annual 

 Volume of Agricultural Statistics, contains the complete details 

 of the produce and yield per acre of the principal crops in 

 Great Britain, and in order to give a comprehensive statement 

 of the results of the harvest for the whole of the United 

 Kingdom, a summary of the corresponding particulars for 

 Ireland is included. 



The tables are prefaced by an introductory memorandum 

 summarising some of the more striking features of the statistics 

 of the year's crops, and in this the caution given last year 

 against treating the quantitative results — which alone can be 

 expressed in these estimates — as a complete representation of 

 the year's harvest is repeated with additional emphasis. The 

 detailed reports received from the local Estimators contain, it is 

 stated, ample evidence that the serious effects of the wet 

 weather which characterised the season of 1903 were fully 

 recognised when they made their estimates of yield. It 

 appears that if the time of ingathering had been favourable the 

 yield of all farm crops might have been generally satisfactory. 

 As one Estimator expresses it, the crops were bulky but the 

 quality was inferior, the wet weather causing growth but the 

 lack of sunshine preventing development. Nor were there 

 wanting — as usually happens under the diversified agricultura 

 conditions of the British Isles — instances of widely different 

 results, sometimes even in the same neighbourhood. 



Final Report of the Departmental Committee on Butter Regula- 

 tions. [Cd. 1749.] Price $d. Minutes of Evidence. [Cd. 

 1750.] Price Js. $d. 



This Committee issued in 1902 an Interim Report,* in which 

 they unanimously recommended the adoption of a limit of 



*Jotirnal of the Board of Agriculture, Vol. viii., p. 546, 



