THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Vol. XII. No. 9. 



DECEMBER, 1905. [NEW SERIES.] 



THE BRITISH CROPS OF 1905. 



The preliminary estimate of the yield of the cereal, root, and 

 hay crops, issued on the 24th November last, are given in the 

 following table, which shows also the extent to which each 

 crop differed from the average of the preceding ten years : — 



Crop. 



Yield 

 per Acre 

 in 1905. 



Difference 

 from Aver- 

 age of 

 1895-1904. 



Crop. 



Yield 

 per Acre 

 in 1905. 



Difference 

 from Aver- 

 age of 

 1895-1904. 





Bushels. 



Bushels. 





Tons. 



Tons. 









Potatoes 



6-i8 



+ 0-35 



Wheat 



3278 



+ 2*22 



Turnips and 









Swedes 



1374 



+ 0-86 



Barley 



33"9i 



+ vog 



Mangold 



20*32 



+ 2*00 



Oats ... 



38-16 



-0-65 



Hay from 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Beans... 



32-28 



+ 4-62 



Clover, &c. 



2872 



-0-17 





Hay from Per- 







Peas 



257i 



-o-59 



manent Grass 



2171 



-1-52 









Hops... 



14-21 



+ 5'57 



From this it will be seen that seven of the eleven items 

 separately collected were above the average — wheat, beans, 

 mangolds, and hops by a considerable amount — while in none 

 of the other four crops was the deficiency a very large one, so 

 that the harvest of 1905 may be described as distinctly satis- 

 factory upon the whole, particularly in Scotland, where the hay 

 crop alone was slightly below the mean. 



The actual quantities of cereals harvested in 1905 and 1904 

 are shown in the next table. Comment has already been made 

 in an earlier number of this Journal (September, p. 335), upon 

 the largely increased area sown to wheat this season, and with 

 an increase of almost 6 bushels per acre as compared with last 



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