Parliamentary Publications. 



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The usual import tables will be found to give detailed 

 information as to the quantities, values, and sources of the 

 sea-borne food of this country ; and the foreign section of the 

 returns enables contrasts to be drawn between the production 

 of other countries and that of our own. A new table has 

 been added to this part of the returns, illustrating the 

 wide difference in the total areas, and in the aggregate 

 populations, of the several countries for which statistical 

 information is given — differences which in many respects, it 

 is pointed out, impede the institution of exact comparisons, 

 and explain the difficulty often encountered in obtaining 

 foreign agricultural statistics in as complete a form, and 

 brought up to dates as recent as are those of the United 

 Kingdom. 



Agricultural Statistics^ Ireland. — Tables showing the extent in 

 statute acres and the produce of the crops for the year 1897. 

 {C, Sfiz^.y-Frice 3^. 



The area and produce of the principal crops in Ireland in 

 1 897 are given as follows : — 



Crop. 





Total 



Produce 



Area. 



Produce. 



per Acre. 





Acres. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Wheat 



47,235 



726,021 



I5'4 



Oats 



1,175,118 



16,264,733 



13-8 



Barley ------- 



170,504 



2,587,137 



15-2 



Bere ------- 



148 



1,876 



127 



Rye ------- 



13,058 



141,593 



IO-8 







Tons, 



Tons. 



Potatoes- ------ 



677,216 



1,498,416 



2-2 



Turnips ------- 



308,966 



4,133,585 



I3"4 



Mangel Wurzel and Beetroot - 



54,649 



751,056 



137 







Stones. 



Flax 



45,537 



7,272 



25-6 



Hay : Clover, Sainfoin, and Rotation 







Tons. 



Grasses ----- 



637,128 



1,434,686 



2-3 



Permanent Pasture 



1,539,014 



3,653,231 



2-4 



The acreage of wheat was 24 per cent, above that of 1896, 

 but, with the exception of the turnips and mangels, all other 

 crops exhibited a decreased area — flax by 37 per cent. 



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