474 = 205 
Practical Agriculture. 
from the returns I collected a few years ago, is 37 bushels, th 
total produce of the United Kingdom amounting to 11,668,00 
quarters (without deducting for seed), grown upon an averag 
area of 2,523,000 acres. One-half of this quantity is produce 
by fourteen English counties, as stated in the annexed Tabli 
while over one-fourth is grown by the four counties — Yorkshin 
Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Essex. 
YorksMre 
Norfolk 
Lincolnsliire 
Essex 
Total in the four Counties .. 
Suffolk 
Devonshire 
Wiltshire 
Hampshire 
Cambridgeshire 
Oxfordshire 
Northamptonshire 
Nottinghamshire 
Cornwall 
Kent 
Total in the fourteen Counties 
In the remaining twenty-six counties . . 
England 
Wales 
Scotland 
Ireland 
United Kingdom and Islands 
Acres. 
Average of Five 
Years. 
187,000 
188,000 
146,000 
101,000 
622,000 
132,000 
82,000 
65,000 
63,000 
55,000 
51,000 
52,000 
47,000 
52,000 
41,000 
1,262,000 
624,000 
Yield per 
Acre in an 
Average 
Season. 
Basbels. 
39 
36| 
39i 
39J 
36 
30 
37 
36J 
39^ 
39^ 
38J 
41 
32 
40 
1,886,000 
162,000 
239,000 
219,000 
2,523.000 
37 
37 
37 
37 
37 
In estimating the probabje barley yield it is necessary 
determine what this grain will be required for ; as in soi 
seasons the proportion of good malting barley to tail will I 
perhaps, as low as 1 per cent, of the latter, in which case t I 
grain is usually first-rate ; or it may extend to as high as 15 j'] 
cent., and then the crop is always indifferent. 
Barley imports The quantity of barley imported in 1875 was 3,094,000 quJ 
and prices. td-g^ ^nd in 1876 it was 2,736,000 quarters ; so that we imp 
only about one-sixth to one-fifth of an average total supply ; a| 
the price therefore depends chiefly upon the quantity and quail 
of the home crop ; — a condition of the market which doe« il 
