I9i i.J 



Produce of Hops. 



697 



thirty years, 1881-1910. On the average in this period during the last 

 thirty years 480 hours of sunshine were experienced, whereas in 191 1 

 660 hours were recorded on the average over the United Kingdom. 

 There were only thirty-five days in the summer of 191 1 on which rain 

 was experienced, as compared with an average of forty-eight rain days 

 during the thirty years, and the corresponding rainfalls were 5*5 ins. 

 and 86 ins. The average temperature of the summer of 191 1 was 

 60' 4 0 , compared with an average summer temperature from 1881-1910 

 of 57'4°- 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have issued the following 

 preliminary statement, dated Oct. 12th, showing the estimated total 

 production of hops in the years 191 1 and 1910, 

 with the acreage and estimated average yield 

 P s ' per statute acre in each county of England 



in which hops were grown. 



Counties, &c. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Acreage 

 Returned on 

 5th June. 



Estimated 

 Average Yield 

 per Acre. 







1911. 



1910. 



1911. 



1 10. 



1911. 



1910. 



Kent 



'East 



Mid 



Weald 



Cwts. 

 61,606 

 79,101 

 86,032 



Cwts. 



49,135 

 64,874 

 72,886 



Acres. 

 5,718 

 6,966 

 7,507 



Acres. 



5,779 

 6,942 



7,357 



Cwts. 

 10*77 

 11-36 

 11-46 



Cwts. 



8- 50 



9 '34 



9- 91 





k Total Kent 



226,739 



186,895 



20,191 



20,078 



11-23 



9'3i 



Hants 



Hereford 



Surrey 



Sussex ' 



Worcester 



Other Counties* ... ... 



14,627 

 29,256 

 4,269 

 29,847 

 22,630 

 655 



16,946 

 40,961 



5,341 

 22,878 

 28,666 

 988 



1,444 

 5,034 



500 

 2,698 

 3,061 



128 



1,411 

 4,987 



514 

 2,653 

 3,io9 



134 



10 13 

 5-81 

 8*54 

 1-06 

 7-39 

 5-12 



I2'OI 

 8'2I 

 10-38 



8-62 



9'22 



7-37 



Total 



328,023 



302,675 



33,056 



32,886 



9-92 



9'20 



* Gloucester and Salop. 



Note. — The estimated average yield per acre this year exceeds by 

 one cwt. the average yield per acre of the previous ten years, and is 

 three-quarters of a cwt. larger than in 19 10. The increased yield per 

 acre on a slightly increased acreage results in a total crop which exceeds 

 that of last year by 25,000 cwts. This year's crop of 328,000 cwts., 

 although larger than that of 19 10, and still larger than that of 1909, is 

 less than that of 1908 by 143,000 cwts. It is also 69,000 cwts. below 

 the average total crop of the decade of 1901-10, the reduction of acreage 

 having more than counterbalanced the increased yield per acre. 



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