Acreage of Crops. 
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The acreage under Cabbage steadily increases, and the 
addition of 4,528 acres, or nearly 6^ per cent., raises the total 
area to 74,896 acres. During the past 25 years the acreage has 
been more than doubled. An addition of nearly 3,000 acres, 
or 16'8 per cent., took place under Kohl-rabi, and the area 
now devoted to this crop reaches about 21,000 acres, or nearly 
double the average for the period 1881-1885. The chief gains 
were in Essex, Kent, Suffolk, and Cambridge. 
The area under Lucerne again increased, and the 8,000 acres 
more than last year represent an augmentation of 14 per cent. 
The cultivation of Lucerne is almost confined to the eastern 
half of Great Britain, the six counties of Essex, Kent, Suffolk, 
Hertford, Cambridge, and Norfolk accounting for 66 per cent, 
of the total area. 
On the subject of Small Fruit the returns for the year 
1907 make a new departure, and afford further and more 
correct information as to the kinds of fruit and their relative 
importance. Occupiers were this year requested to return 
small fruit under four, and orchards under five headings, and 
also to state how much of the land under orchards was also 
returned as under small fruit. To meet the difficulty of land 
on which more than one kind of fruit was grown, the following 
instruction was given in the schedule : — “ The average under 
mixed small fruit, containing more of one sort than another, 
should be entered against the sort to which the larger propor- 
tion of the fruit belongs. Where the sorts are equally mixed 
the entry should be made against ‘ Other Kinds.’ ” A similar 
instruction was given with regard to orchards. The result 
of this new investigation may be given in the following 
statement : — 
Fruit Areas 
England 
Wales 
Scotland 
Great 
Britain 
Small Fruit ; 
Acres 
Acres 
Acres 
Acres 
Strawberries 
23,623 
780 
3,424 
27,827 
Raspberries 
6,480 
20 
2,378 
8,878 
Currants and Gooseberries 
24,179 
177 
1,234 
25,690 
Other kinds 
19,090 
236 
564 
19,880 
Total .... 
73,372 
1,213 
7,590 
82,175 
Orchards : 
Apples .... 
168,676 
3,115 
962 
172,643 
Pears .... 
8,635 
93 
183 
8,911 
Cherries .... 
11,962 
40 
36 
12,027 
Plums .... 
14,671 
60 
270 
14,901 
Other kinds 
40,384 
363 
947 
41,694 
Total . ... 
244,118 
3,671 
2,387 
250,176 
Acreage of small Fruit in > 
Orchards ... 1 
22,680 
106 
806 
23,492 
Total area under Fruit . 
294,910 
4,778 
9,171 
308,869 
