Acreage of Woodlands in Great Britain. 
235 
Divisions 
Coppice 
Planta- 
tions 
(since 
1895) 
Other 
woods 
Total 
wood- 
lands 
I. Eastern and North Eastern 
II. South Eastern and East Midland . 
III. West Midland and South Western . 
IV. Northern and North Western . 
Acres 
47,159 
270,683 
184,618 
35,663 
Acres 
11,297 
15,580 
16,156 
16,614 
Acres 
189.038 
318,303 
268,815 
341,547 
Acres 
247,494 
604,566 
469,589 
393,824 
England 
538,123 
59,647 
1,117,703 
1,715,473 
V. Wales 
VI. Scotland (Eastern) 
VII. „ (Western) 
15,733 
8,645 
14,370 
8.629 
22.768 
12,639 
159,999 
421,489 
388,498 
184,361 
452,902 
415,507 
Great Britain 
576,871 
103,683 
2,087,689 
2,768,243 
According to the Memorandum which accompanies this 
Table in the Agricultural Returns for 1905, the present total 
area of woodlands in Great Britain, viz., 2,768,243 acres, is 
42,127 acres in excess of that returned ten years ago. This 
extension was, however, confined to England and Wales, the 
total area of woods in Scotland showing a decline of 10,356 
acres. The decrease north of the Tweed has occurred notwith- 
standing the fact that 35,407 acres of land are returned as 
having been planted or replanted during the past ten years ; so 
that it would appear that the clearance of woodland areas by 
storms and from other causes has been considerably greater 
than the owners of land have been able to make good. 
Yield and Acreage of Crops in Great Britain. 
The following observations are reproduced from the 
Agricultural Returns of 1904, and the Acreage and Live 
Stock Returns of 1905 : — 
Estimated Yield of Crops in 1904. 
Wheat . — The total estimated production of wheat was 36,880,246 bushels, 
a smaller amount than has been returned in any year since the data were first 
collected. The yield per acre, 26 - 82 bushels, which was 4T3 bushels below 
the average, has, moreover, touched a lower point on only three previous 
occasions, the lowest yield of any year in the crop records having been that of 
1893, when it was 25 - 95 bushels. In Monmouth, Chester, Lancaster, and 
Northumberland, the yield was about a bushel more than the average, and in 
four other English counties it also exceeded the mean. In all other parts of 
England the yield was less than the normal, the worst results being obtained 
in the great corn-growing districts of the east. The greatest diminution 
occurred in Essex, where the yield of 22'39 bushels per acre was 9‘35 bushels 
below the mean, or a little over two-thirds of an average crop ; while, with 
the exception of Norfolk and the East Riding of York, all the counties of the 
Eastern Division of England were 6 bushels or more below the average, as 
were also Buckingham, Northampton, and Nottingham. The results in Wales 
differed considerably, the net result being nearly half a bushel above the 
average ; and in Scotland, where the yields varied from 4 bushels below the 
average in Inverness to 2| bushels above in Berwick and Wigtown, there was 
on the whole an excess of nearly 1 bushel per acre above the mean. 
