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drought, which not only told disastrously on the Hay harvest, but 
also largely reduced the yield of the cereals of the year. The higher 
yields of the more fortunate parts of the United Kingdom thus 
to some extent counteracted the unusual losses of the Central and 
Southern counties. 
Even thus qualified, however, the general figures for the 
United Kingdom indicate a marked deficiency in four out of the 
five cereal crops reported on, while the Hay crop, from both 
permanent and temporary grass, has been reduced to an extent 
never before recorded in these returns. In Grain crops, as com- 
pared with 1892, we have grown less Barley by 14 per cent., less 
Wheat by 16 per cent., less Beans by 31 per cent., and less Peas by 
5 per cent. The estimated produce of Wheat stands below the total 
for the preceding year by as much as 1,233,000 quarters. This is 
mainly in consequence of the smaller area under the crop ; but the 
further loss of nearly 1,400,000 quarters of Barley must be wholly 
ascribed to an inferior yield, as the acreage was slightly greater than 
in 1892. Against these losses a total increase of only 50,000 
quarters of Oats, on a largely increased area, is a relatively small set 
off. 
Grain Crops in the United Kingdom. — The estimates of the total 
native production of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Beans, and Peas in the 
United Kingdom as a whole, reckoned in quarters, compare as 
shown in Table I. for each of the last three years, placing these five 
crops in the order of their relative magnitude. 
Table I. — Total produce of Corn Crops in the United Kingdom. 
Crops 
1891 
1892 
1893 
Oats 
Quarters 
20,809.000 
Quarters 
21,023,000 
Quarters 
21,074,000 
Barley 
9,944,009 
9,617,000 
8,218,000 
Wheat 
9,343.000 
7,597,000 
6,364,000 
Beans . 
1,337,000 
882,000 
608,000 
Peas 
722,000 
629,000 
595,000 
Such a table brings out the contrast with the harvest of 1891 
as well as of 1892, and indicates that nearly 3,000,000 fewer 
quarters of Wheat were grown in 1893 than were produced two 
years previously. 
These figures also strikingly emphasize the fact that with an 
extending area in England, and an area always largely preponderat- 
ing in Scotland and Ireland, the Oat crop bulks more largely than 
all the other four Corn crops collectively in any estimate of the 
total Corn production of the United Kingdom. And it may be 
added that even if, as has been sometimes estimated, no more than 
one-half of the Oats grown come into the category of saleable 
produce, the value of that half at the prices current in March, 1894, 
exceeds the entire value of the Wheat crop of the year. 
The mean yields per acre of the grain crops for the United 
