Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests. 413 
bushels short of the standard has been recorded. As before, the 
five counties of the South-East — Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, and 
Berks — have the unpleasant pre-eminence of being collectively the 
greatest sufferers, with a yield reduced from a standard of 46 bushels 
per acre to one of 28 bushels, or very little more than three-fifths 
of an ordinary crop ; the report from Sussex is the worst of the 
five, the average Oat crop in that county being only a single bushel 
above 3 quarters to the acre, while in ordinary seasons little short of 
6 quarters per acre are looked for. 
After the South-Eastern counties, some of the Eastern group have 
been next worst off. Cambridge, which usually boasts the largest 
Oat yield of any English county, with a normal outturn reckoned in 
1885 at over 8 quarters to the acre, reports in 1893 a crop of less 
than 5 quarters, while the whole of Part (a) of this division returns 
only two-thirds of a normal harvest. Here also, in the case both of 
Oats and of other cereals, instances of the crops being cut green to 
make up for deficient fodder are reported. 
The fluctuations shown in 1893 in the yield of Oats in each of the 
eight subdivisions of England may be traced in Table VI. 
Table VI. — Produce of Oats in ihe Subdivisions of England 
in 1893. 
1893 
Bivisions 
of 
Eng’ and 
Estimated 
total 
produce, 
1893 
Estimated 
yield 
per acre, 
1893 
Ordinary 
average (as 
estimated 
in 1885) 
Deficiency 
(-)or 
increase 
( + ) on 
estimated 
ordinary 
average 
Percentage 
of 
decrease 
(-) or 
increase ( + ) 
Division f Part (a) 
Bushels 
6,980,940 
Bushels 
32-80 
Bushels 
50-43 
Bushels 
-17-63 
Per cent. 
-350 
No. 1 LPart (b) 
12,347,591 
43 01 
50-16 
- 6-55 
-130 
Division 
'Part (a) 
7,052,277 
27’80 
45-80 
-1800 
-39-3 
No. 2 ' 
_Part (b) 
5,908,312 
31-35 
4039 
- 9 04 
-22-4 
Division f Part (a) 
5,G84,820 
32-75 
37-28 
- 4-53 
-12-1 
No. 3 \Part (b) 
0,489,842 
27-15 
34-92 
- 7-77 
-22-3 
Division j 
'Part (a) 
10,850,071 
41-91 
38-40 
+ 3-45 
+ 90 
No. 4 1 
L Part (b) 
11,849,981 
38-88 
39-40 
- 0-58 
- l if 
In Wales, where Oats are grown on a not inconsiderable area, 
the average decline is only a bushel and a half below the standard ; 
but an exceptional loss occurs in three counties — Carmarthen, Car- 
narvon and Pembroke. In the last of these, indeed, the deficit 
appears as nearly 16 bushels below the standard, and may be traced 
to the special suffering of this county from the drought which is 
indicated by the rainfall records of the year. While the Scottish 
Oat crop, as above noticed, has been on the whole over average 
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