418 Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests. 
acre in place of 42*05 cwt. In Durham 27*73 cwt. out of 31*43 
was secured, and the average crops of the other Northern counties 
— Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland — with those of 
the considerable Hay areas of Chester and the West Riding, ranged 
from 24 cwt. to 31 cwt. even in the past summer. But in other 
counties where the area of Rotation Hay is large the yields have been 
very small. Thus the yield of Norfolk was 15 - 36 cwt., and that of 
Hampshire was 1 1 '69 cwt. only. In Wales the county of Pembroke 
again stands out as the greatest sufferer with a Clover Hay crop of 
7*33 cwt. as against a normal yield of 25 - 73 cwt. The Scotch Hay 
crop of this class is nowhere put below 16*41 cwt., which is the 
yield shown for Inverness. It is small, however, also in Orkney, 
Shetland, and Caithness, but on the other hand the estimate exceeds 
two tons to the acre in Edinburgh and Renfrew, and is very nearly 
as large in Lanark. 
Table YII. — The produce of Ilay in 1893 and 1892. 
Divisions 
1893 
1892 
Decrease 
Decrease 
per cent. 
Great Britain . 
Cwt. 
91,970,022 
Cwt. 
140,305,061 
Cwt. 
48,329,039 
Per cent. 
34*45 
England . 
Wales 
Scotland . 
68,729,702 
7,878,402 
15,367,918 
111,177,871 
12,068,687 
17,058,503 
42,448,169 
4,190,285 
1,690,585 
3818 
34*72 
9*91 
England in Divisions : 
Division 1 j ^ 
5,213,795 
6,797,542 
10,790,061 
11,267,566 
5,576,266 
5,470,024 
51*68 
48*55 
Division 2 ^ ^ 
5,162,573 
5,535,578 
9,957,887 
11,523,102 
4,795,314 
6,987,524 
48*16 
51*96 
Division 
7,600,494 
5,514,940 
12,129,426 
9,054,700 
4,528,932 
3,539,760 
37*34 
39*09 
Division 4 ^ j 
14,264,900 
19,639,880 
18,388,382 
28,066,747 
4,123,482 
8,426,867 
22*42 
30*02 
The record of Hay cut from Permanent Grass is very poor in 
England. The English mean estimate gives only 12 cwt. in place 
of an ordinary 26 cwt. per acre, but this includes some remarkable 
returns which credit Kent with only 4*33 cwt. per acre, as against 
a normal crop estimated at 25*52 cwt., Bedford with 4*38 cwt. out 
of a customary crop of 24*43 cwt., Rutland with 4*64 cwt. out of 
24*67 cwt., and Surrey 4*97 cwt. out of 25*02 cwt., while through 
a belt of counties including Berkshire, Buckingham, Oxford, 
Gloucester, and Somerset, with Warwick and Worcester, a yield 
of less than 7 cwt. per acre is reported. Pembroke is again the 
only Welsh county equally low. In Scotland, the Permanent 
Meadow Hay is returned as from 9 to 12 cwt. over average 
