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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[June 1896. 



show for cereal crops an increase in wheat of 0*8 cwt., in oats 

 of 0*7 cwt., in barley of 0'3 cwt., in bere of 0 5 cwt., and in rye 

 of 0'8 cwt. In other crops there is an increase in potatoes of 

 1*4 tons, in turnips of 1*2 tons, and in mangel wurzel and beet 

 root of 1'5 tons, while there is a decrease in flax of 8*1 stones. 

 The rate for hay is the same as the average. The increase in 

 the produce of potatoes per acre, as compared with the average 

 rate for the preceding 10 years is equal to an increase of 40 per 

 cent., and the decrease in the yield per acre of flax is equivalent 

 to a decline of 28 per cent. 



Tbe total produce of wheat in 1895 was 594,027 cwts., being 

 27'6 per cent, under the produce for the preceding year, and 

 49 0 per cent, under the average for the 10 years 1885-94; the 

 total quantity of oats was 18,221,202 cwts., being 5'5 per cent, 

 under the produce in 1894, but 1*1 per cent, over the average 

 for the 10 years 1885-94 ; the quantity of barley was 2,845,172 

 cwts., being an increase of 1-2 per cent, as compared with the 

 return in 1894, but 0'2 per cent, below the average for the 10 

 years 1885-94 : bere yielded 1,939 cwts., against 2,307 cwts. in 

 1894, and an average qf 4,384 cwts. for the 10 years 1885-94 ; 

 and the produce of rye was 153,867 cwts., being 1*4 per cent, 

 above that for the preceding year, but 2*7 per cent, below the 

 average for the 10 years 1885-94. 



The total produce of potatoes was 3,472,015 tons, being 85*4 

 per cent, above the yield in 1894, and an increase equivalent to 

 27*9 per cent, as compared with the average produce for tbe 10 

 years 1885-94. The turnip crop was 4,490,559 tons, being 4*9 

 per cent, over the produce of 1894, and 14*3 per cent, above the 

 average for the 10 years 1885-94; and the total quantity of 

 mangel wurzel and beet root was 827,669 tons, being 9*2 per 

 cent, more than in 1894, and 290 per cent, over the average for 

 the 10 years, 1885-94. 



The yield of flax was 12,193 tons, being 43*3 per cent, under 

 the produce in 1894, and 321 per cent, below the average 

 quantity for the ten years 1885-94. 



The produce of hay from clover, sainfoin, and grasses under 

 rotation was 1,156,389 tons, showing a decrease equal to 22*6 

 per cent, as compared with the quantity in 1894, and the 

 quantity of hay from permanent pasture and grass not broken 

 up in rotation was 3,405,685 tons, or 10 7 per cent, below such 

 produce in 1894. The aggregate quantity of hay under both 

 headings (4,562,074 tons) is 747,290 tons, or 14-1 percent, under 

 that for 1894, but shows an increase equivalent to 0*4 per cent, 

 as compared with the average produce for the ten years 

 1885-94. 



Of the acreage under each variety of potato grown in 

 Ireland, 777 per cent, consisted of champions, leaving only 223 

 per cent, for all other varieties — the per-centage of some of 

 them being so small as to be barely appreciable when put into 

 figures. The proportion of champions planted in Ireland, which 



