BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Vol. VIII. No. 4. MARCH, 1902. 



THE BRITISH CROPS OF 1901. 



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In the last number of the Journal particulars were given of 

 the estimated produce of the three principal grain crops, 

 wheat, barley, and oats, in Great Britain in 1901. The 

 returns, now available, of the remaining crops for 

 which estimates of yield are collected, enable the whole of 

 the results of the year's harvest to be summarised in the 

 following table : — 





Yield 



Above or 





Yield 



Above or 



Crop. 



per 



Below 



Crop. 



per 



Below 





Acre. 



Average. 





Acre. 



Average. 





Bushels. 



Bushels. 



! 



Tons. 



Tons. | 



Wheat - . - 



30-84 



+ 0-91 



Potatoes 



6' 3 6 



+ 0-51 



Barley - 



30-98 



—2-15 



Turnips 



12*26 



-o-6 3 



Oats 



3674 



—173 



Mangold 



19-49 



+ 2-01 











Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Beans - 



24-16 



—2-54 



Hay from clover etc., 



25-48 



— 2-08 



Peas - 



25-96 



-+OMO 



Hay from permanent grass 



16-63 



-5-57 









Hops .... 



12-70 



+ 4'i4 



It will be seen that only in five cases — wheat, peas, pota- 

 toes, mangolds, and hops — did the estimated yield per acre 

 last year exceed the standard average based on the ten pre- 

 ceding years, and one of the crops thus distinguished, hops, 

 affects an area so comparatively limited as not greatly to affect 

 a review of the agricultural position of the country generally. 



Taking in detail the crops to which reference has not pre- 

 viously been made, it will be observed that Beans were more 

 deficient than any other cereal crop, the yield being 



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