5H 



The British Crops of 1905. 



[dec, 



year, the total production is over 22,000,000 bushels, or almost 

 60 per cent. greater than in 1904. It. may be noted that this is 

 the largest total since 1899. The yield proved to be greatest in 

 Scotland, where it amounted to 42*46 bushels, or 4} bushels 

 above the average ; this is within one-hundredth of a bushel of 

 the highest previously returned (42*47 bushels in 1898). The 

 yield in England was 32*66 bushels per acre, but this has been 

 exceeded four times in the past decade ; while the Welsh yield 

 was only bushels above the average. 



Crop. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Estimated Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average 



of the 

 Ten Years 



1895- 

 1904. 



1905. 



1904. 



1905. 



1904. 





Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Wheat 



58,902,499 



36,880,246 



3278 



26-82 



30-56 



Barley 



58,110,064 



57,193,067 



33"9i 



31-07 



32-82 



Oats 



116,436,887 



127,407,848 



38-16 



39*17 



38-81 



Beans 



8,201,730 



5,827,789 



32-28 



23-12 



! 27-66 



Peas 



4,439,483 



4,441,103 



2 57i 



2575 



26-30 



Barley, in spite of a smaller area, yielded nearly 1,000,000 

 bushels more than in 1904, nearly all of this increase being 

 noted in Scotland, as an increase of 260,000 bushels in England 

 was partly counterbalanced by a decrease in Wales. The Scotch 

 yield, 3773 bushels per acre, is the second highest average 

 recorded, being about 1^- bushels below that of 1898. 



Oats were less satisfactory, being 1*3 bushels below the average 

 in England ; an over-average yield in Scotland and Wales, 

 however, reduces the deficiency for Great Britain as a whole to 

 about two-thirds of a bushel. 



Beans proved one of the best crops of the year ; not since 

 1 89 1 have over i,ooopoo quarters been harvested in Great 

 Britain. The acreage was, however, much larger in the eighties, 

 and the only occasion when the present yield was exceeded was 

 in 1890, in which year 32*65 bushels per acre were returned. 

 The English yield was 4-J bushels above the average, and the 

 Scotch return of 3676 bushels, although grown in a compara- 

 tively small area, is, it may be noted, no less than ij bushels 

 above the highest hitherto recorded. Peas proved to be six- 

 tenths of a bushel below the average, the decline being only 



