224 The Harvest 0/ 1889 at Home and Abroad. 
classed with those of 1889, as they come for consumption mainly 
during the current cereal year, and in these countries the crops 
have turned out well, though not nearly equal to early expectations 
in Australia at any rate. Tasmania and New Zealand are usually 
classed with the rest of Australia, though their harvests are well 
into the new year ; but of the crops of these colonies nothing more 
than approximate estimates can at present be offered, and they are 
based upon low expectations in the former colony and moderate ones 
in the latter. In the case of India, where the greater portion of the 
wheat crop is secured in March, the produce of 1890 cannot fitly be 
put with the crops of countries which gather in their harvests in 
1889, although such information about it as is at present available 
will be noticed in the proper place. With these few explanatory 
remarks, I must at once proceed to give results, as far as they can 
be given, on the authority of official and other reputable estimates, 
the space at my disposal being insufficient to allow of a recital of 
the causes of abundance or deficiency in the several countries. 
TnE United Kingdom. — Although in many parts of the country 
the results of last harvest have proved extremely disappointing, 
particularly in relation to the cereal crops, the Agricultural Produce 
Statistics show that, taking all crops into consideration, the past 
year was one of the most productive of the " eighties. - ' In the 
Table on pages 211 and 215 will be found details as to the acreage 
and produce of the several crops in 1888 and 1889. In the subjoined 
summary table the broad results for the United Kingdom are shown, 
while the yield per acre is also compared with the " ordinary 
average " : — 
Area 
Produce 
TieM per acre 
Crop 
1888 
1889 
1888 
1889 
1888 
1889 
Ordinary 
a* era ge 
acres 
acres 

bushels 
bushels 
bushels 
bushels 
bushels 
2.663,250 
74,493,133 
75,883,611 
27-97 
29-89 
2871 
Barley ...... 
2.556,870 
S.3"7.7-4 
74.545.549 
74,763.755 
33-03 
32-37 
33-95 
Oats 
4,163,110 
4,127,656 
157,975,675 
164,078.736 
37-95 
39-75 
3878 
314,147 
324.780 
9.844,474 
9,374,942 
28-61 
28-87 
30-35 
242,240 
225.432 
5,862,099 
5,921,107 
24-20 
26-27 
28-48 
tons 
tons 
tons 
tons 
tons 
1 394,726 
1.366,456 
5.5^2,331 
6.435,387 
4-00 
471 
455 
2,218,554 
28,001,632 
32,007,085 
12-51 
1443 
14-S9 
MantroMs 
406,934 
370,149 
6,829,322 
6,740,278 
16-78 
1821 
19-01 
Hay (all kinds) . . . 
9.291.433 
9,651,742 
15.132,585 
16,284,879 
1-63 
1-69 
1-50 
cwts. 
cwts. 
cwts. 
cwts. 
cwts. 
cwts. 
cwts. 
Hops (England only) 
58,490 
57,724 
281,291 
497,811 
4-81 
8-«2 
7-84 
It is desirable to mention that the areas of crops in the Produce 
Statistics do not correspond with those of the Agricultural Returns, 
because in the former the figures for the Isle of Man and the Channel 
Islands are not included. I must also explain that the ordinal] 
average yield for the United Kingdom, not given in the Agricultural 
Produce Statistics, is a time average worked out from that of Great 
Britain, as officially stated, and the ten years' average of the Irish 
official statistics. 
In dealing with the crops of foreign countries, I give official 
statistics for nearly all the principal producing countries and tlic 
