Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests. 409 
Yield of Crops in Great Britain. 
Confining attention to the statistics collected of the yield of the 
various crops in Great Britain alone, and disregarding the element 
introduced by the Irish figures, we are met by an almost unbroken 
series of under-average yields, the production of Wheat in the 
year 1893 standing at only 25 - 95 bushels per acre, the yield 
for Barley being 28-69 bushels, for Oats 35-59 bushels, for Beans 
19-39 bushels, for Peas 22-61 bushels, for Turnips 13-30 tons, for 
Mangel 12-84 tons, for Hops 7*21 cwt., for Clover Hay 18-74 cwt., and 
for Permanent Meadow Hay only 12-56 cwt., or less than half a crop. 
Potatoes alone show an average yield. 
Comparisons with Freviotcs Harvests. — Perhaps the relation of 
these figures to the records of previous years in some of the more 
important crops may be most conveniently shown by Table III., 
wherein the normal yield for Great Britain, according to the local 
estimates obtained in 1885 and 1886, and shown in the heading of 
the several columns, is represented by the figure “ 100,” and the 
proportion of the estimated yield per acre of each year, 
from 1884 to 1893 inclusive, to this ordinary average is shown 
accordingly. 
Table III. — Relative Yields of Crops in Great Britain, 
1884-1893. 
Wheat 
Bakley 
Oats 
Potatoes 
Hat 
(Clover, &c.) 
Hay 
(Permanent 
Pasture) 
Years 
Estimated 
ordinary 
average, 
28-80 
bushels 
Estimated 
ordinary 
average, 
3402 
bushels 
Estimated 
ordinary 
average, 
3904 
bushels 
Estimated 
ordinary 
average, 
6-11 
tons 
Estimated 
ordinary 
average, 
29-34 
cwt. 
Estimated 
ordinary 
average, 
25*56 
cwt. 
per acre 
per acre 
per acre 
per acre 
per acre 
per acre 
1884 
104 
100 
96 
108 


1885 
109 
103 
94 
95 
— 
— 
1886 
93 
95 
97 
94 
100 
102 
1887 
111 
92 
89 
104 
93 
81 
1888 
97 
97 
95 
85 
96 
110 
1889 
104 
93 
101 
101 
114 
114 
1890 
107 
103 
106 
87 
104 
104 
1891 
109 
100 
99 
94 
97 
92 
1892 
92 
102 
99 
95 
87 
75 
1893 
90 
84 
91 
108 
64 
49 
Neither Wheat nor Barley, it therefore appears, has ever before 
shown so small a yield as in 1893 since these returns were 
collected, and the yield of Oats only on one occasion. Potatoes 
have only once before been as good a crop, while Hay of both 
kinds has, as anticipated, shown an enormous diminution from the 
normal standard. 
The Yield of Wheat in Great Britain. — Taking some of the esti- 
