Practical Agriculture. 
ducing coun- 
ties. 
Tields of 
wheat and 
barley com- 
pared with 
those of foreign 
countries. 
Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Kent, Hampshire, Sussex 
Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire. Nearly one-fourth of the whole 
is grown in three counties, namely, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and 
Essex. In fact, Lincolnshire, which heads the list with 
maximum crop of \\ million quarters, reaps and thrashes above 
a fifth more wheat than all Scotland and Ireland. 
For the credit of English husbandry, it will be well to compare 
its standard yields of wheat and of barley (the latter estimated 
from the same elaborate collection of returns from growers upon 
which the produce of wheat is founded) with the yields of those 
cereals in foreign countries — this information being supplied in 
the Board of Trade Agricultural Returns for 1876. 
Estimated Yield per Acre of Wheat and Barley in Imperi 
Bushels per Statute Acre in the undermentioned Countries. 
Country. 
England 
"Wales 
Scotland 
Great Britain . . 
Ireland 
Islands 
United Kingdom 
Holland 
Belgium 
Wurtemberg 
Bavaria 
Egypt 
France 
Greece 
Austria (Proper) 
Portugal 
Hungary 
Bussia 
Barley.* 
27 
29 
29^ 
25 
28 
37 
28J 
42 
20J 
35 
18 
2U 
16:^ 
20 
15} 
20i 
13| 
18i 
13i 
18f 
12| 
13} 
9 
11 
8} 
13} 
5} 
8 
The live-stock The density of the stocking with cattle, sheep, and horse 
•ensus gives jg shown in the Diagram-map by three colours, each wit) 
tommer ^"^^^ degrees of shading; the facts being calculated from th 
stocking of Agricultural Returns. It must be understood that the figure 
different coun- Census on the 25th of June, give the head of live 
stock in each county on that day in the middle of the summei 
and not the number which would be found in the county o 
an average day ; or, in other words, on an average of the fou 
seasons. So that Norfolk, for instance, with its small propo) 
ties. 
* In Continental countries, barley includes biTC. 
