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The Grain Harvest of 1901. 



England, the influence of that large proportion is necessarily 

 predominant, but, in any case, it happens that on this occa- 

 sion the results of the harvest on the small wheat acreage of 

 Wales and Scotland respectively tend to neutralise each 

 other. Although the Welsh yield per acre is given as 

 slightly in excess of the decennial average, it is rather more 

 than a bushel under that of last year, whereas in Scotland 

 the? yield was 2§ bushels above last year, and two bushels 

 over the average wheat crop of the past ten years. 



The following table shows the estimated total produce an 

 yield per acre of wheat : — 



Wheat. 



Estimated TV.al 

 Produce. 



Estimated Yield 

 per Acre. 



1 



Average 

 of the 

 Ten 













Years 





1901. 



1900. 



1901. 



1900. 



1891-00. 





Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels . ' 



Bushels. 



England 



49,882,667 



49,528,385 



30-84 



28-39 



29-91 



Wales 



1,156,673 



1,332,299 j 



24-67 



2579 



24-24 



Scotland 



1.418,262 



1,779,125 



39-15 



36-43 



37-08 



Great Britain 



52,457,602 



52,639,809 



30-84 



28-53 ; 



29-93 



It appears that not only absolutely but in comparison 

 with the previous year, the most satisfactory crops of the- 

 last harvest were obtained in the great corn-growing 

 division of England, which comprises the counties of Bedford,. 

 Huntingdon, Cambridge, Suffolk, Essex, Hertford, Middle- 

 sex, Norfolk, Lincoln, and the East Riding, the average 

 wheat yield, as estimated for the purpose of these returns,, 

 being 3^ bushels above that returned for that district in the 

 preceding year. On the other hand, it would appear that 

 the yield on the comparatively limited wheat acreage of the 

 northern division, comprising the counties of Northumber- 

 land, Durham, the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire, 

 Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancaster, Stafford, Chester,, 

 and Derby, was only fractionally above that returned for the 

 preceding year. 



