356 THE GRAIN AND POTATO CROPS OF 1896. [March 1897. 



show a greater yield per acre than has occurred in the 13 years 

 since official produce statistics were first collected, and nearly 

 5 bushels per acre over the calculated average of the 10 years 

 1886-95. 



The barley crop of 1896 was grown on an acreage slightly 

 below the increased figure shown in 1895, and the estimated 

 aggregate production exceeded that of 1895 by somewhat over 

 2,000,000 bushels, or just about the same amount below 

 the total production of 1894, when the acreage was nob very 

 dissimilar to that of last year. The yield of 1896 is placed at 

 2 bushels above the rate per acre estimated in 1895, but only 

 a single bushel above the mean yield per acre of the period 

 1886-95. The figures for each part of Great Britain are as 

 follows : — 



Barley. 



Estimated 

 Total Produce. 



Estimated 

 Yield per Acre. 



1 Average 

 Yield 

 per Acre, 

 1886-95. 



1896. 



1895. 



1896. 



1895. 



England 

 Wales - 

 Scotland 



Great Britain 



Bushels. 

 59,844,000 



2,823,000 



8,108,000 



Bushels. 

 58,092,000 



2,997,000 



7,562,000 



Bushels. 

 33-64 



26*21 



37-14 



Bushels. 

 31-61 



26'78 



34-92 



Bushels. 

 32-67 

 28-92 

 35-28 



70,775,000 



68,651,000 



33-63 



31-69 



32-68 



Oats in Great Britain proved an under-average crop. In both 

 England and Wales, as the following table shows, the yield per 

 acre was put below the estimate for 1895 and still more below 

 the 10 years' mean of the period 1886-95. In Scotland the 

 yield per acre was rather over both the 1895 figure and that for 

 the 10 years. The acreage there also was practically the same 

 as in the preceding year, while in England the larger area put 

 under wheat left that under oats short by some 200,000 acres. 

 The result has been to show a total production of this cereal 

 considerably below that of 1895, something like 16 per cent, 

 short of the supply of 1894, and but little over the low estimate 

 of the year 1893. 



Oats. 



Estimated 

 Total Produce. 



Estimated 

 Yield per Acre. 



Average 



Yield 

 per Acre, 

 18S6-35. 



1896. 



1895. 



1896. 



1895. 



England r 



Wales - - - - 



Scotland - 



Great Britain 



Bushels. 

 69,102,000 



7,1SO,000 



37,434,000 



Bushels. 

 78,645,000 



7,654,000 



35,S50,000 



Bushels. 

 37-60 



29*71 



37*13 



Bushels. 

 38-45 



31-60 



35*55 



Bushels. 

 40-36 



32-49 



35-97 



114,016,000 



122,149,000 



36'83 



37-06 



38-23 



