236 Statistics affecting British Agricultural Interests. 
Barley . — The total production of barley, like that of wheat, was the 
smallest of the last twenty years ; and the estimated yield of 31 bushels per 
acre was 2T bushels below the average, but, nevertheless, it exceeded consider- 
ably the minimum average yield of 28'69 bushels per acre returned in 1893. 
The deficiency in England alone was 2 - 5 bushels per acre, Wales having three- 
quarters of a bushel over average, and Scotland exactly equalling the ten 
years’ mean. The lowest returns were from the eastern counties, Essex, 
Hertford, and Huntingdon all showing a deficit of of to 6 bushels per acre, and 
the great barley county of Lincoln followed closely with nearly 5 bushels 
below the average. The extreme north of Scotland fared badty, Sutherland, 
Ross, Inverness, and Nairn showing 7 to 8 bushels below the mean ; but the 
deficiency there was balanced by increases of 2 bushels on the relatively larger 
areas of Berwick and Forfar. 
Oats . — The total production of oats proved to be very large, having been 
exceeded only in 1894, when 135,462,931 bushels were recorded, and in 1902. 
This large amount is, however, in the main attributable to the increased 
acreage, the yield per acre throughout Great Britain being only a tenth of a 
bushel above the mean. The English crop of this cereal, indeed proved 
deficient by a quarter of a bushel, Wales having an increase of L74, and 
Scotland one of 0T1 bushels per acre. Essex, Hertford, and Huntingdon 
gave from 5 to 7f bushels below the mean, the only English county to show an 
increase of as much as 5 bushels being Lancaster. The results in Scotland 
were very variable, an excess of about 4 bushels or more being noted in Berwick, 
Edinburgh, Kinross, and Selkirk ; while a marked deficiency occurred in 
Clackmannan, Elgin, Inverness, Ross, Sutherland, and Nairn, in which last it 
amounted to as much as 9 bushels. 
Beans and Peas . — Beans were, on the whole, estimated as the worst of the 
cereal crops in Great Britain, the yield being 5 - 13 bushels below the mean. A 
few counties in England, viz., Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, and Wilts, had from 
3 to 5 bushels above the mean ; but in some of the more important counties 
there were very large deficiencies amounting to over 12 bushels per acre in 
Huntingdon, Lincoln, East Riding, Leicester, Notts, and Rutland, while in the 
West Riding the 8’49 bushels harvested represented very little more than a 
third of an average crop. In Scotland, where the acreage is relatively small, 
a yield above the average was secured. Peas, practically negligible outside 
England, were rather more than half a bushel below the ten years’ average. 
The extremes were 4 - 58 bushels per acre above the average in Sussex and 7\59 
bushels below in the East Riding of Yorkshire. 
Potatoes . — The total production of potatoes has only three times previously 
been exceeded, the greatest crop on record— 3,743,203 tons— having been 
returned in 1884. England and Scotland both had, in 1904, a yield per acre 
largely above average, the former by 6 cwt., the latter by almost 30 cwt., 
while an average of over 7 tons per acre, as was secured in Scotland, has never 
previously been noted in any of the three divisions of Great Britain. Wales 
was not so fortunate, the 4'84 tons per acre there returned representing about 
12 cwt. less than the mean. The best results in England were secured in 
Lancaster, with nearly 2 tons more than the average ; while crops of about a 
ton over normal were secured in Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Durham, Norfolk, 
Northumberland, Salop, Stafford, and Surrey. On the other hand the yield 
fell below the mean by over a ton in Cambridge and Cornwall. Lincolnshire, 
the chief potato-growing county, had a deficit of one-third of a ton per acre. 
In Scotland, one county only, Dumbarton, fell slightly below the normal. 
Banff and Kinross had almost 3f tons above the average ; while Bute, 
Caithness, Fife, and Forfar were all more than 2 tons to the good. The largest 
yield recorded in any single county was 9 - 45 tons on the small area in 
Clackmannan, while Banff also secured over 9 tons to the acre. 
Turnips and Swedes . — The production of turnips and swedes was heavy, 
being above the average by more than a ton in England, by If ton in Wales, 
