STATISTICS AFFECTING BRITISH 
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS. 
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE STATISTICS, 1892. 
The exceptional nature of the harvest of 1892 confers an addi- 
tional interest upon the Agricultural Produce Statistics, issued for 
that year by the Board of Agriculture on April 17, 1893. From 
them, and from the Agricultural Returns published previously, the 
Table occupying pp. 450-1 is compiled, whilst the following remarks 
are extracted from the report of Major Craigie, Director of the 
Statistical Branch of the Board. 
To the particulars for Great Britain have been added similar 
data for the Irish crops, so as to enable a general estimate to be 
shown of the aggregate produce and average yield for the United 
Kingdom , exclusive of the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, where 
no particulars of this nature are collected by the authorities. 
Totals for the United Kingdom. — Making, in the first place, a 
general contrast between the gross out-turn of the crops reported 
on in each of the past two years for the United Kingdom as a whole, 
the estimated total produce and yield per acre may be thus com- 
pared : — 
Crops 
Estimated total produce 
Yield per acre 
1892 
1891 
1892 
1891 
bushels 
bushels 
bushels 
bushels 
Wheat 
60,775,215 
74,742,700 
26-48 
31-30 
Barley ..... 
76,939,135 
79,555,089 
34-78 
34-72 
Oats 
168,181,197 
166,472,428 
39-82 
40-46 
Beans ..... 
7,054,275 
10,694,376 
22-38 
29-83 
Peas 
6,028,494 
5,777,445 
25-85 
28-23 
tons 
tons 
tons 
tons 
Potatoes .... 
5,633,954 
6,090,047 
4-45 
4-74 
Turnips .... 
31,419,153 
29,741,587 
14-04 
13-40 
Mangel .... 
7,427,771 
7,558,216 
17-99 
18-60 
cwts 
cwts 
cwts 
cwts 
Hay from clover, sainfoin, &c. 
80,305,423 
85,566,162 
29-10 
31-39 
Hay from permanent pasture 
150,024,198 
167,862,776 
23-30 
2813 
Hops ..... 
413,259 
436,716 
7-35 
7-78 
The Yield of Wheat. — The largely diminished Wheat crop of 1892, 
which is 14,000,000 bushels below that of 1891, is due to a double 
cause — the reduced area remaining under this cereal and the very 
poor results of the past harvest. The yield of 1892 was nearly five 
bushels per acre under the yield of 1891. But it is to be noted 
that, so far as the small areas still grown in Ireland and Scotland 
affect the figures given for the United Kingdom, their estimates 
