570 
Wheat, Sheep , and Cattle in 1894. 
ing at any time, are specially valuable at this period of the year. 
The “ preliminary statement ” given on pp. 583-84 differs from that 
which has hitherto been published at so early a date in setting forth 
for the first time the figures as to hay. 
Table I . — Areas of Wheat, Potato, and Hay Crops, and Numbers 
of Cattle, Sheep, and Piys in 1894 and in 1893. 
Crops 
England 
Wales 
Scotland 
Great Britain 
WHEAT. . 
acres 
1,826,620 
1,798,869 
acres 
56,470 
54,562 
acres 
44,866 
44,093 
acres 
1,927,962 
1,897,524 
Increase in 1894 . 
27,757 
1,908 
773 
30,438 
POTATOES . . | 
340,557 
355,553 
34,038 
35,024 
129,859 
137,244 
504,454 
527,821 
Decrease in 1894 . 
14,996 
986 
7,385 
23,367 
HAY from CLO-") 
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1,558,799 
1,496,467 
170,135 
168,403 
392,970 
382,138 
2,121,904 
2,047,008 
Increase in 1894 . 
62,332 
1,732 
10,832 
74,896 
HAY from PER- f 1894 
MANENT GRASS! 1893 
4,178,720 
3,006,918 
510,049 
499,009 
163,073 
164,553 
4,852,442 
4,270,480 
Increase ( + ) or De- j 
crease ( — ) in 1894. . J 
+ 571,802 
+ 11,040 
-1,480 
+ 581,962 
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CATTLE (of allages) j Jggg 
No. 
4,450,607 
4,744,059 
No. 
695.000 
738,608 
No. 
1,201,506 
1,218,009 
No. 
6,347,113 
6,700,676 
Decrease in 1894. 
293,452 
43,608 
16,503 
353,563 
SHEEP (of all ages) | ^ 
15,509,995 
16,805,280 
3,078,641 
3,101,890 
7.272,864 
7,373,164 
25,861,500 
27,280,334 
Decrease in 1894 . 
1,295,285 
23,249 
100,300 
1,418,834 
PIGS (of all ages) . j J°gg 
2,013,823 
1,793,456 
227,608 
200,676 
148,535 
119,398 
2,390,026 
' 2,113,530 
Increase in 1894 . 
220,367 
26,992 
29,137 
276,496 
A still greater advance has been made by the issue, in September, 
of further details relating to the wheat, potato, and hay crops, and 
to cattle, sheep, and pigs. From these figures Table I. has been 
compiled. It shows that the wheat crop and the hay crop from 
