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The British Crops of 1905. 



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noted in England, and Scotland obtaining over ij| bushels 

 above the average. 



Particulars of the root and hay crops are given in the next 

 table. Potatoes have yielded rather less than last year, but 

 still an over-average crop has been secured. Scotland is again 

 the most favoured of the three divisions of Great Britain, its 

 679 tons per acre being not far short of a ton above the mean 

 and only a third of a ton below last year's record yield ; the 



Welsh and English crops were about 4 cwt. above the average. 



Crop. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Estimated Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average 



of the 

 Ten Years 

 1895- 

 1904. 



1905. 



1 



1904. 



1905. 



I904. 





Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons, 



Potatoes ... 



3,762,706 



3,588,254 | 



6-i8 



6*29 



5'8 3 



Turnips and 













Swedes 



21,840,582 



23,036,129 



1374 



14-36 



12-88 



Mangold... 



8,213,260 



7,481,402 



20-32 



1876 



18-32 



Hay from Clover 







Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



&c 



3,143,352 



3,497,063 



2872 



30-11 



28-89 



Hay from Per- 





5,875,696 









manent Grass... 



5,087,971 



21 71 



24*66 



23*23 





Cwts. 



Cwts. 









Hops 



695,943 



282,330 



I4 - 2I 



5-91 



8-64 



The yield of turnips and swedes was good, though not up to 

 last year ; both England and Scotland had almost a ton above 

 the average, but Wales, with a deficiency of 2 tons below the 

 mean, was unfortunate. Mangold did much better than the 

 other big root crop, and exactly 2 tons more than the average- 

 were obtained throughout Great Britain as a whole. The 

 present year's yield per acre has only been surpassed three 

 times, and the total production only twice, in the preceding 

 twenty years. The English yield was relatively rather better 

 than the Scotch, while the Welsh was less than half a ton over 

 the average. 



The hay crop was, perhaps, the least satisfactory of the year, 

 both categories being below the average, although that from 

 clover and rotation grasses was only very slightly so. Hay from 

 permanent grass was cwt. below the average, Scotland doing 

 better than England in this case, while in rotation grasses 

 England was a little the better. In no case, however, was the 



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