THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Vol. V. No. 3. DECEMBER, 1898. 



THE GP.AIN HARVEST OF 1898. 



The Board of Agriculture issued on the 6th inst. the annual 

 preliminary statement showing the estimated total yield of 

 the wheat, barley, and oat crops of Great Britain for the 

 current year. The returns published in August last indicated 

 that the wheat crop of 1898 was grown on a surface greater 

 by 213,000 acres than the wheat area of 1897, and as the 

 offi-cial estimates of the yield now available show the results 

 of the harvest to have been 5I bushels per acre over the 

 average of the ten years 1888-97 the total out-turn is very 

 considerably in excess of that of the previous year. Stated 

 in bushels, the wheat harvests of the past two years are con- 

 trasted in the following table, in which the last column also 

 shows the average of the decennial period 1888-97 : — 



Wheat. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce, 



Estimated Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average | 

 of the 

 Ten 





1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



Years 

 1888-97. 





Bushels. 



Bushch. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



! Bushels. 



England 



69,074,387 



51,724,955 



3476 



28-97 



29-19 



Wales- 



1,582,086 



1,332,192 



26-83 



24-76 



23-49 



ScoLland 



2,372,383 



1,883,38s 



42-47 



37-83 



35-80 



Great Britain - 



73,028,856 



54,940,535 



34 74 



29-08 



29-19 



