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THE BRITISH HARVEST OF 1894. 



[March 1895. 



In the case of oats, the continued extension of the acreage adds 

 proportionally more to the aggregate production of the year. 

 The comparative yields for each division of Great Britain are as 

 shown below : — 



Oats. 



Estimated 

 Total Produce. j 



Estimated Yield. 



Average 

 Yield, 



1894. 



1893. ' 



1894. 



1893. 



1885-94. 



England 



Wales - - - - 



Bushels. 



88,289,000 

 - 9,018,000 



Bushels. 



1 



67,164.003 1 

 7,452,000 1 



Bushels 

 per A ere. 



44/6 



35-9 



Bushels 

 per Acre. 

 35-1 



30-9 



Bushels 

 . per Acre. 

 40-6 



Scotland 



38,161,000 



38,271,000 



37-3 



37-6 



35-6 



Great Britain 



135,463,000 



112,887,000 



41-6 



35-6 



38-2 



Turning to the crops for which the estimates have not yet 

 been published, it will be found that in the case of potatoes the 

 production of the year 1894 is very materially less than in 1898, 

 and is the smallest crop of any year of the series for which 

 returns have been collected. This is partly due to the dimi- 

 nished acreage already shoAvn in the published agricultural 

 returns, but the following table shows that the yield has also 

 fallen short not only of that of 1893, but also of the mean of 

 the ten years : — 



Potatoes. 



Estimated 

 Total Produce. 



Estimated 

 Yield per Acre. 



Average 

 Yield 



1894. 



1893. 



1894. 



1893. 



per Acre, 

 1885-94. 



England 



Wales .... 

 Scotland ... 



ipi 



Tons. 



2,362,000 

 232,0(0 

 882,000 



1 Tons. 

 5-8 

 5-5 



; 4-8 



Tons. 

 6-6 

 6-6 

 6-4 



Tons. 

 5-9 

 5-6 

 5-6 



Great Britain 



2,789,000 



8,476,000 



5-5 



6-6 



5*8 



Few features of the season of 1893 were more remarkable than 

 the greatly reduced total production, and the diminished yield 

 per acre, of the hay crop obtained both from clover and rotation 

 grasses and from permanent pasture. The expectation that the 

 opposite weather conditions and the much larger area set aside 

 for the crop of 1894 would make some amends, in quantity at 

 all events, has been fully realised, according to the estimates 

 now furnished. These place the amount of hay secured in 

 Great Britain generally in 1894 not only largelj^ beyond the 

 produce of the year of drought, but, taking England alone, at 

 quite double the amount of clover hay, and nearly three times 

 the amount of hay from permanent grass which was obtained 

 in 1893. The yield per acre of both forms of hay comes out 

 considerably above the mean of the nine years 1886-94, for 

 which records exist in all divisions of Great Britain. As regards 



