The Grain Harvest of 1901. 



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In only one previous year, 1S93, has the estimated yield 

 per acre of barley been lower than that returned for the 

 current year This crop was, indeed, nearly three bushels 

 per acre below the average of the preceding year in England, 

 and although the deficiency in Wales was much less, and an 

 excess above the average of about half a bushel per acre 

 was recorded in Scotland, the net result for Great Britain 

 stands at only 31 bushels per acre, or i| bushels below 1900, 

 and rather more than 2 bushels less than the decennial 

 average. The deficiency, as compared with the preceding 

 year, was most marked in the Souih-eastern and East- 

 midland division comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, 

 Sussex, Berks, Hants, Nottingham, Leicester, Rutland, 

 Xorthampton, Bucks, Oxon, and Warwick, and in the sub- 

 division comprising trie counties of Cumberland, Westmor- 

 land, Lancaster, Stafford, Chester, and Derby. In the 

 four south-western counties, on the other hand, the crop 

 seems slightly to have exceeded that of 1900. 



The comparative results lor barley are given below : — 



Barley. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Estimated Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average 

 of the 

 Ten 





1901, 



1900. 



1901. 



1900. 



Years 

 1891-00. 





Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



England 



49, 55 7, 593 



^0.977.26^ 



3030 



30 "99 



55 ' 0 3 ] 



Wales - 



3,016,334 



3,341,872 



29-60 



31-81 



30-26 | 



Scotland 



- 



8,533,696 



7,995,373 



36-30 



33*29 



5579 j 



Great Britain 



61, 107.623 



62,314.510 



30-98 



3i'3i | 



33 - i5 



The average yield per acre of oats for Great Britain was 

 36J bushels, or about \\ bushels below 1900, and if bushel- 

 below the ten years'' average. In England alone the de- 

 ficiency was, in fact, much greater, being about double 

 in each case. But the production of this crop in Scotland, 

 where nearly one-third of the area under oats is to be found, 

 was much better than that realised south of the Border, 

 the Scottish yield being estimated to have even exceeded by 



