4:70 = £04 
Practical Agriculture. 
Home crop of 
twelve months from September 1st in one year to August 31st 
in the next) in which the Board of Trade have obtained " Agri- 
cultural Returns." The second column states the number of 
acres under wheat in the United Kingdom, including the islands 
in each year. Whether absolutely correct or not (and we are 
sure that a portion must be guess-work, owing to the number of 
occupiers who decline giving the Government any information), 
these official figures may be taken as furnishing a tolerably 
sound comparison between one year and another ; and from the 
way in which enumerators go to work in filling up the blanks 
made by defaulting occupiers, probably the statistics of acreage; 
under different kinds of crops are more exact than the figuresj 
professing to give the numbers of different kinds of live-stock, | 
The " assumed yield per acre " in column three is deduced froni 
the inquiry made a few years ago, and already alluded to. 
embracing estimates from practical farmers in the Poor-la\»| 
Unions, forty or fifty per county, as to what constitutes "ar! 
average crop ; " and additions or subtractions are made upor 
the standard average of 29 J bushels per acre, according to th( 
" character " of each year's crop. The estimates of excess oi i 
deficiency were, of course, obtained from elaborate informatior 
collected in each year. Multiplying the ascertained acreage h) 
the assumed yield per acre, we get the probable total hoin([ 
production in each year ; and making an allowance for seed o | 
nearly 2^ bushels upon the next year's acreage, we arrive at th< 
probable nett produce available for consumption or export. 
Estimated "Wheat Production of the United Kingdom. 
ferent years. 
Year. 
Acres. 
Assumed Vield per Acre in Bushels. 
Available for 
Consumption, afto 
deducting Seed. 
In Quarters. 
1866 
1867 
1868 
1869 
1870 
1871 
1872 
1873 
1874 
1875 
1876 
Average of \ 
11 Years / 
Standard I 
Produce / 
3,661,000 
3,640,000 
3,951,000 
3,982,000 
3,773,000 
3,831,000 
3,840,000 
3,670,000 
3,833,000 
3,514,000 
3,124,000 
bush. 
Under average . . . . 27 
Much over average . . . . 34 
Under average . . . . 27 
Much under average . . 23 
Much under average .. 23 
Under average . . . . 27 
11,440,000 
10,390,000 
' 15,790,000 
12,490,000 ' 
14,100,000 
11,970,000 
10,110,000 
10,550,000 
13,700,000 
9,124,000 
9,665,000 , 
3,712,000 
Mean of 11 Years .. 27J 
11,757,000 ■ 
3,712,000 
29J Luthels per Acre. 
12,644,000 
