The Grain Harvest of 1899. 



291 



The extent of land under wheat in Scotland and Wales is 

 comparatively insignificant, and consequently the results 

 realised in those parts of the kingdom do not greatly affect 

 the total, but it may be noted that in Wales the yield was 

 returned as only 1 \ bushels,and in Scotland only half a bushel 

 above the ten years' average, so that in 1899, England, with 

 an excess of three bushels, was much the most favoured. 



Looking still more closely into the variations of the local 

 estimates so far as at present available, and pending the com- 

 pletion of the necessary calculations for each county, the table 

 given on p. 290 shows that the district returning the highest 

 average yield of wheat was that which embraces Bedford, 

 Hunts, Cambridge, Suffolk, Essex, Herts, and Middlesex ; 

 while the sub-division comprising Norfolk, Lincoln, and the 

 East Riding of Yorkshire stands second instead of first, as in 

 the two years immediately preceding. For the whole of the 

 distinctively corn-growing division of England, consisting of the 

 counties above-named and comprising two-fifths of the whole of 

 the land under wheat in Great Britain, the average yield per 

 acre was 34*14 bushels, or nearly ij bushels in excess of the 

 yield returned for the country as a whole. 



The estimated total yield of barley closely approached the 

 figure returned for 1898, a diminished product per acre being 

 to some extent counterbalanced by an extended area. The 



Barley. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



j Estimated Yield 

 j per Acre. 



1 



Average 

 of the 

 Ten 





1899. 



1898. 



1899. 



1898. 



Years 

 : 1889-98. 





Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



England 



56,164,313 



55,377,522 



34*34 



35'44 



33 - ^ 



Wales - 



3,328,494 



3,377.413 



3i*4i 



32-82 



29-87 



Scotland ... 



8,222,891 



9,296,983 



34-19 



39-07 



36-29 



Great Britain 



67,715,698 



68,051,918 



34-16 



3575 



33'26 



average yield of 34*16 bushels is 1} bushels below that of the 

 previous year, but is still nearly a bushel above the decennial 

 average, although it has been five times exceeded during the 



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