March 1895.] 



PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



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XIIL^PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS DEALING 

 WITH AGRICULTURE. 



Agricultural Statistics, Ireland. — Tables showing the Extent in 

 Statute Acres and the Produce of the Crops for the Year 

 1894 ; together with Tables showing the Average Yearly 

 Extent under the Principal Crops, and the Average Produce 

 thereof in the Ten Years 1884-93 ; also Bee Keeping 

 Statistics for the Season 1893. [C.-7532.] Price S^d. 



This report of the Registrar-General for Ireland contains very 

 complete statistical details, showing by counties and by provinces 

 the extent of land under crops in Ireland in 1894. It also gives 

 the observations of the inspectors of the Royal Irish Constabulary 

 and of the sergeants of the Metropolitan Police, who acted as 

 superintendents of the agricultural statistics. 



Comparing the area under the several cereal crops in 1894 

 with that for 1893, there is a decrease of 5,660, or 10*3 per 

 cent., in the number of acres under wheat ; a decrease of 4,181 

 acres, or 2 5 per cent., in barley; a decrease from 195 to 176 

 acres in here ; and a decrease of 1,535 acres, or 11*4 per cent., 

 under rye ; with an increase of 6,499 acres, or 0*5 per cent., in 

 oats. In green crops, potatoes decreased by 6,645 acres, or 0*9 

 per cent., turnips increased by 8,536 acres, or 2*8 per cent., and 

 mangel wurzel and beetroot increased by 5,005 acres, or 10*6 

 per cent. In other crops — flax increased by 33,594 acres, or 

 49 "8 per cent. ; meadow or clover, sainfoin, and grasses under 

 rotation decreased by 1,297 acres, or 0*2 per cent. ; while meadow 

 on permanent pasture or grass not broken up in rotation, 

 increased by 16,422 acres, or 1*1 per cent. Compared with the 

 average acreage for the 10 years 18S4-93 turnips increased by 

 12,156 acres, or 4*1 per cent., mangel wurzel and beetroot by 

 8,295 acres, or 19*0 per cent., flax by 1,830 acres, or 1*8 per 

 cent., and hay by 71,775 acres, or 3*4 per cent. Wheat shows 

 a decrease compared with the average of 26,463 acres, or 34*5 

 per cent. ; in oats there is a decrease of 19,678 acres, or 1*5 per 

 cent. ; in barley a decrease of 10,470 acres, or 6 0 per cent. ; the 

 area under here declined from 343 acres to 176 acres, and rye 

 decreased 196 acres, or 1*6 per cent. Potatoes have decreased 

 by 61,182 acres, or 7*9 per cent. 



The average yield per acre of cereal crops in 1894, compared 

 with 1893, exhibits an increase in wheat of 0*4 cwt., and in 

 barley of 0*7 Cwt., while there is a decrease in oats of 0*1 cwt 

 in here of 0 3 cwt., and in rye of 0*5 cwt. In other crops — 

 potatoes show a decrease of 1*6 tons, turnips of 2 3 tons, mangel 



