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OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



Vol. VI. No. 3. DECEMBER, 1899. 



THE GRAIN HARVEST OF 1899. 



The preliminary statement showing the estimated produce 

 of the three chief cereal crops in Great Britain was issued by 

 the Board of Agriculture on the 5th inst. The estimated 

 yield of wheat per acre is returned as 32f bushels, and this, 

 although two bushels below the very exceptional record of 1 898, 

 is still nearly three bushels above the decennial average yield 

 ■of Great Britain. Only twice, viz., in 1896 and 1898, during 

 the fifteen years in which produce estimates have been officially 

 collected, has the yield stood at so high a figure. The reduc- 

 tion by 101,225 acres of the area under wheat in the past season 

 -as compared with 1898, disclosed in the returns published in 

 August last, together with the lowered yield per acre, makes 



the aggregate production of wheat nearly a million quarters 

 ■smaller than in 1898. The figures for 1899, as compared with 



1 898, and with the ten years' average, are as follows : — 



Wheat. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Estimated Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average 

 of the 

 Ten 





1899. 



1898. 



1899. 



1898. 



Years 

 1889-98. 





Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



England 



62,380,067 



69,o74 5 3 8 7 



32-83 



34-76 



29 -s 5 



Wales - 



i,3 8o >938 



1,582,086 



25*62 



26-83 



24-03 



Scotland 



1,768,^20 



2,372,3S3 



37-42 



42-47 



36-94 



Great Britain 



65,5 2 9o25 



73,028,856 



32-75 



3474 



29-86 



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