436 



British Crops of 1899. 



three tons or 20 per cent, short, while in England the 

 deficiency is estimated to have averaged nearly 5 tons per 

 acre. 



In the crop of mangold the yield was, in 1899, fractionally 

 above the decennial average. As this crop is practically 

 confined to England, the returns for Wales and Scotland 

 have no material influence, but so far as they go they reduce 

 the general result the deficiency in Wales being considerable* 



Mangolds. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Estimated Vield | 

 per Acre. 



' 1 



Average 



Yield 

 per Acre 





1899. 



1898. 



1899. 



1898. 



1889-98. 





Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



England 



6,378,000 



6,064,000 



17*56 



17-68 



17.42 



Wales --- - 



130,000 



129,000 



14-64 



[6-39 



I6-3-? 



Scotland 



30,000 



25,000 



16-87 



18-04 



16-98 



Great Britain 



6,538,000 



6,218,000 



17-48 



17-65 j 



I7-39 



After the ver}r abundant hay crop of 1898 it was almost 

 inevitable that the produce of 1899 should be by comparison 

 small. The reduction is estimated at more than six cwts. per 

 acre in the case of clover hay and the deficiency was slightly 

 greater in the case of permanent grass. But such was the 

 magnitude of the previous year's crop that in each case 

 these considerable reductions only left the yield slightly 

 below the ten years' average. It may be observed also that 

 as this period of ten years embraced at each end of the 

 decennium the two heaviest crops on record, viz., those of 1889 

 and 1898, it furnished a somewhat high standard of com- 

 parison. Putting both kinds of hay together the aggregate 

 quantity grown in Great Britain last year is estimated, in 

 round numbers, as 8 million tons, or over 2 \ million tons less 

 than in 189S. 



The produce of hay from clover and rotation grasses is 

 shown separately in the following table, the deficiency being 

 slightly greater in Scotland than in England, while in Wales 



