412 Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests. 
Table Y . — Produce of Barley in the Subdivisions of England 
in 1893. 
1893 
Divisions of England 
Estimated 
total pro- 
duce, 1893 
Estimated 
yield per 
acre, 1893 
Ordinary 
average 
(as esti- 
mated in 
1885) 
Deficiency 
(— ) or in- 
crease ( + ) 
on estimated 
ordinary 
average 
Percentage 
of decrease 
( — ) or in- 
crease ( + ) 
Division 
Part 
(«) 
Bushels 
9,554,220 
Bushels 
24-91 
Bushels 
35-87 
Bushels 
-109G 
Per cent. 
-305 
No. 1. 
Part 
(0 
14,801,335 
31-28 
35-57 
- 4-29 
-12-0 
Division 
' Part 
(a) 
3,273,527 
22 79 
35-79 
-13 00 
-36-3 
No. 2. 
Part 
W 
5,565,458 
27-23 
34-37 
- 7 14 
-20-8 
Division 
Part 
(«) 
4,691,719 
27-56 
31-14 
- 3-58 
-11-5 
No. 3. 
Part 
(0 
3,265,689 
2209 
30 97 
- 8-88 
-28-7 
Division 
Part 
(a) 
6,610,416 
35 23 
33-04 
+ 219 
+ 66 
No. 4. 
Part 
(0 
1,270,344 
31-01 
32-40 
- 1-39 
- 4-3 
Not till we reach the Northern group does the crop appear to 
have escaped the loss of yield due to the drought of 1893 ; and, 
indeed, Barley is returned as an under-average crop even in two 
counties, Derby and Stafford, included in this division. In Scotland 
the Barley crop was more than 4| per cent, over average, but in 
Wales nearly 10 per cent, under average. Nor was the loss 
measured by the number of bushels threshed the only damage sus- 
tained, for except where the Barley was sown early, when some good 
samples were obtained in various districts, the irregular germination 
of the crop in very many English counties severely affected the 
quality and value of the produce. 
The Yield of Oats in Great Britain . — The Oat crop of 1893, 
depi’ived of the moisture requisite to its growth in three-fourths of 
England, fell also considerably below an average yield. Scotland, 
however, furnishes a third of the acreage carrying Oats in Great 
Britain, while it has only a little more than a tenth of the acreage 
under Barley, and there the benefit of a remarkably early harvest 
enabled an over-average crop to be secured. This caused the mean 
reduction of the yield per acre of Oats in Great Britain to stand at a 
smaller figure than that of Barley, the total decline of 8 - 8 per cent, 
below the standard yield being the result of a drop of nearly twice 
this ratio, or 16*7 per cent., in the English counties, and one of 4‘7 
per cent, in Wales, checked by an increased yield of 5 - 3 per cent, in 
North Britain. 
In the three produce divisions of England which have suffered 
in the case of the other cereals, the average loss in Oats is very con- 
siderable. In five of the six smaller groups or subdivisions com- 
pared in the preceding paragraphs, and collectively making up the 
injuriously affected section of the country, a yield of from 44 to 18 
