516 Report on the Farm Prize Competition in 
Crop Statistics, 1877 and 1887. 
Description of crops 
Lincoln 
Notts 
England 
1877 
1887 
1877 
1887 
1877 
1887 
Eye 
27-07 
17-28 
8-90 
•17 
3-57 
2-04 
21-74 
18-19 
11-07 
•16 
3-34 
1-88 
24-23 
17-49 
7-02 
•65 
2.91 
2-91 
18-56 
14-05 
12-45 
-96 
2, 57 
1-71 
22-20 
14-86 
11-07 
•36 
3-49 
2-27 
17-75 
14-21 
14-28 
■37 
2-82 
1-82 
Total corn crops . . . 
59-03 
56.38 
55-21 
50-30 
54-25 
51-25 
Green crops : — 
Turnips and swedes . . 
Vetches and other green ] 
crops except clover y 
and grass . . • . j 
3-45 
12-87 
1-89 
1- 91 
2- 10 
4-32 
13-03 
204 
1-40 
209 
2-01 
1- 41 
•50 
2- 15 
2-64 
13-54 
1-55 
-61 
1-99 
2-25 
I I * I I 
2- 58 
1-41 
3- 12 
2-98 
11-46 
2-84 
1-29 
307 
Total green crops . . . 
22-22 
22-88 
18-52 
20-33 
20-47 
21-64 
Clover, sain- f For hay 
foin, and 1 Not for hay 
gra s s e s-j 
under ro- Total , . 
lation ... ^ 
6 97 
9-06 
8- 55 
9- 37 
9- 23 
10- 95 
12-46 
11-56 
11-96 
8-38 
13-80 
9-02 
1 6 03 
17-92 
20-18 
24-02 
20-34 
22-82 
/ For hay 
Permanent I Not for hay 
pasture ... ) 
[ Total . . 
6-21 
22-52 
7-57 
23 95 
11-46 
24-44 
14-68 
2913 
13-32 
31-35 
15'75 
34-68 
28-73 
31-52 
35-90 
43-81 
44-67 
50-33 
Bare fallow or uncropped p 
-13 
2-51 
-02 
2-73 
•01 
5-99 
5-27 
•05 
•52 
4^28 
•03 
-51 
368 
The figures are not revolutionary, and on the whole can 
hardly be said to prove any very unusual or considerable de- 
parture from previous practices. On the contrary, they appear 
rather to support the opinion of many competent men that no 
very great alteration of the kind is practicable or advisable. 
At the same time the -wheat area has certainly been markedly 
reduced, even in the county of Lincoln, a great part of which 
is so thoroughly adapted to its cultivation. But probably upon 
that part the reduction has only taken place to a limited extent. 
More than half the deficiency of wheat is, it appears, mad© up 
by an increased acreage of barley and oate. The rotation grasses 
