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Kingdom' in 1893 are shown in the table on pp. 416-17 to have 
been, in the case of Wheat, 26-08 bushels ; of Barley, 29-30 ; and of 
Beans, 19*61. These are quite the lowest figures returned in the 
decade for which returns exist. In the case of Peas the yield of 
22-61 bushels was the lowest with the exception of 1885, when only 
18-78 bushels were secured, while but for a large Irish return, and 
a Scottish crop over average by more than 5 per cent., the Oat crop 
of 1893 would have occupied a similar position of inferiority. 
Other Crops in the United Kingdom. — Turning to other forms of 
produce, the aggregate totals of Potatoes, Roots, and Hay in the 
United Kingdom in the past three years may be contrasted as in 
Table II., in tons. 
Table II. — Total produce of Potatoes, Roots, and Hay in 
the United Kingdom. 
Crops 
1891 
1892 
1893 
Tons 
Tons 
Tons 
Potatoes . 
6,090,000 
5,634,000 
6,541,000 
Turnips . 
29,742,000 
31,419,000 
31,110,000 
Mangel . 
7,558,000 
7,428,000 
5,225,000 
Hay from clover, &c. 
4,278,000 
4,015,000 
3,167,000 
Hay from per- 1 
manent pasture J 
8,393,000 
7,501,000 
5,915,000 
The abundant Potato crop of the season is here apparent, the 
average yield being only once before reached, and the total outturn 
estimated at 16 per cent, above the figures for 1892. In the case 
of Turnips the produce is slightly below the previous year’s crop, 
but above that of 1891. Mangel, however, shows a diminution of 
30 per cent., a serious loss considering the value of the crop in a 
season when fodder and feeding stuffs are scarce. But attention 
will be mainly attracted to the conspicuous failure of the Hay crop. 
The average production of both kinds of Hay in the United 
Kingdom in a normal season may be taken as roughly 13,000,000 
tons — whereof about one-third is raised in Ireland. Every one of 
the last three seasons has, however, shown under average results, 
and the total produce for 1893 is estimated at little over 9,000,000 
tons. Since practically one half of this, or 4,483,000 tons, was the 
produce of Irish fields, it follows that the reduction in the area 
mown, and the scanty crops secured last season, left the growers of 
Hay on this side of St. George’s Channel with not much over half 
of their accustomed supply of fodder. Even with the aid of the fair 
Irish crop, the total estimate of Hay of all sorts shown by the above 
table to have been obtained in the United Kingdom stands at a 
level nearly 2,500,000 tons below the crop of 1892, and 3,500,000 
tons below that of the previous year, while it falls short of an 
ordinary average crop by about 4,000,000 tons. 
