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The Grain Harvest of 1899. 



past fifteen years. Scotland, in the case of barley, returns a 

 yield per acre which is more than two bushels below the 

 average, and nearly five bushels less than in 1898. 



The sub-division showing the highest yield of barley was, 

 as in 1898, that consisting of Northumberland, Durham, and 

 the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire, the average being 

 estimated at 36 bushels per acre. The group of eastern and 

 home counties, which has already been mentioned as returning 

 the heaviest crop of wheat, came second in the list as regards 

 barley with an average crop of 34*88 bushels per acre. 



The year's crop of oats in Great Britain gives an average 

 yield per acre very closely approximating to the ten years' 

 standard ; but in the case of this crop the position of Scotland 

 is very considerably less satisfactory than that of the rest of 

 Great Britain. South of the Tweed the yield of oats was 

 on the whole slightly over average, whereas the Scottish crop, 

 covering about one-third of the area devoted to oats in 

 Great Britain, was two bushels less than an average. 



Oats. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Estimated Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average 

 of the 

 Ten 





1899. 



1898. 



1899. 



1898. j 



Years 

 1889-98. 





Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



s. 



England 



73,905,288 



75,282,761 



41-48 



43 "49 



40*84 



Wales 



7,527,952 



8,389,938 



34'i8 



36-37 



33-06 



Scotland 



33,313,304 



35,248,218 



3478 



36-87 



36-74 



Great Britain 



114,746,544 



118,920,917 



38 77 



4076 



38-86 



The table on p. 290 gives the estimated total produce, the 

 acreage, and the estimated yield per acre of wheat, barley, 

 and oats in the year 1899, in each division or group of con- 

 tiguous counties into which the country has been divided for 

 the purposes of the Produce Returns. 



