Dec. 1896.] 



GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 



301 



Cultivation of Mustard in England. 



The area under mustard has not been hitherto distinguished 

 as a separate crop, but included among the other green crops 

 annually shown in the Agricultural Returns of Great Britain. 

 A special inquiry made in 1896 has, however, obtained certain 

 data on this subject, to which publicity may be conveniently 

 given in advance of the annual volume of Returns, as a matter 

 of some interest. The subjoined table shows the area so 

 returned in all the English counties, with summaries for Wales 

 and Scotland and the Channel Islands : — 



Counties. 



Acres. 



Counties. 



Acres. 



ENGLAND. 





Brought forward 



21,566 



Bedford 



519 



Northumberland 



s 



Berks - - - 



619 



Notts - 



176 



Buckingham 



754 



Oxford 



458 



Cambridge 



4,324 



Rutland 



73 



Chester 



1 



Salop - 



9 



Cornwall 



2 



Somerset 



452 



Cumberland - 



3 



Stafford 



10 



Derby - 



7 



Suffolk 



2,682 



Devon - 



216 



Surrey 



284 



Dorset 



612 



Sussex - 



657 



Durham 





Warwick 



62 



Essex - 



1,081 



Westmorland 





Gloucester - 



91 



Wilts - 



568 



Hants - 



1,718 



Worcester 



49 



Hereford 



68 



York, East Riding 



1,471 



Hertford 



875 



„ North Riding - 



22 



Huntingdon 



616 



„ West Riding - 



354 



Kent - 



459 







Lancaster 





Total for England 



28,901 



Leiceste r 



47 



„ Wales 



5 



Lincoln 



6,402 



„ Scotland 



29 



London 









Middlesex 





Total for Great Britain 



28,935 



Monmouth 



4 







Norfolk 



2,695 







Northampton - 



453 



Isle of Man - 



2 







Jersey 





Carried forward - 



21,566 



Guernsey, &c. 



10 



Cultivation of Oats in Canada. 



Reference is made, in the last Report of the Director of the 

 Canadian Experimental Farms, to the efforts which have been 

 made from the outset, in connection with the work of these 

 farms, to ascertain what conditions most seriously affect the 

 yields of the various grain crops grown in Canada, and to 

 suggest measures for their improvement. 



