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ancl by over tons in Scotland. An increase of shme 3 tons or more beyond 
the normal was returned in Berks, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hants, Wilts, and 
especially the North Riding, where the excess amounted to 5*12 tons. The 
two most important turnip counties, however, namely Norfolk and Lincoln, 
were under the average, the former by little more than half a ton and the 
latter by 2 tons. Other counties showing a decrease of 2 tons or more were 
Huntingdon, Notts, and Rutland. In Scotland generally, as already indicated, 
the results were even more satisfactory than in England, and the 17 f tons 
there raised per acre represents the highest average on record. Fife had 7’69 
tons above the average, an increase of nearly 60 per cent, above the normal ; 
while Argyll, Banff, Bute, Elgin, Forfar, Kinross, Kirkcudbright, Linlithgow, 
Perth, ancl Selkirk, all had crops 3 to 6 tons in excess of the mean. Shetland, 
in the extreme north, was the most prominent exception. 
Mangels .— Mangels were not quite so conspicuously good a crop as turnips- 
nevertheless they yielded practically half a ton per acre above the average- 
On the very small acreage in Scotland, however, they proved below the mean 
by over three-quarters of a ton. The results varied to some extent in different 
parts of England, the number of counties showing an increase not being very 
greatly in excess of those where a diminution was noted. The most prominent 
among the former were Cornwall, Hants, and Wilts, each of which had from 4 
to 5 tons above the average, as had several Welsh counties ; and in the second 
category, Bedford, Huntingdon, and Lincoln were below the mean, by 2 to 3 \ tons 
per acre. The highest return of all, nearly 27 tons per acre, came from Cornwall. 
Hay .— The Hay crop turned out to be substantially above the average, 
although it was not up to the level of 1903 either in total amount or yield per 
acre. Relatively heavier returns were obtained in Scotland than in England, 
while the Welsh returns were also high. From clover and grasses under 
rotation a yield of nearly 1 cwt. per acre above the average was secured in 
England, and nearly 1^ cwt. in Scotland. For England the best results were, 
as usual, recorded in Lancaster and Westmorland. The greatest increase as 
compared with the average occurred in the last-named county, but notably 
over-average results were secured in Berks, Gloucester, Somerset, Surrey, and 
Sussex. Nearly the whole of the eastern and north-eastern counties were, 
however, less fortunate, Cambridge, Durham, Essex, Hunts, Norfolk, 
Northumberland, and the North and East Ridings of York being from 1 to 4£ 
cwt. below the ten years’ mean. The extreme north of Scotland also fared 
badly, the crop being 12 cwt. short of an average in Caithness ; .while con- 
siderable shortages were also recorded in Banff, Kincardine, Ross, Shetland, 
and Sutherland. On the other hand, the south-east of Scotland had very heavy 
yields, Edinburgh, with 68 cwt. to the acre, having 11 cwt. more than the 
average, and Peebles a similar excess, while Linlithgow exceeded the mean by 
13 cwt. Of hay from permanent grass the results reported show England as 
having nearly 1 cwt., Wales If cwt., and Scotland 2 cwt. more than the 
mean. The most and least favoured localities were precisely the same as in 
the last category, and the same counties may be enumerated as having secured 
crops differing most from the normal, save that in England — after London — 
Middlesex showed the greatest increase, and that Edinburgh had a yield only 
moderately above the average from this class of grass, the first position in 
Scotland being taken by Fife and Selkirk, both of which exceeded the mean by 
over 7 cwt. per acre. 
Hops . — Hops are grown in England only, and these fell below the mean 
by no less than 3'21 cwt. per acre. A smaller total has hitherto been 
secured only in the year 1888, when the total production — on a larger area 
than that of 1904— differed by about 1,000 cwt. from this year’s total. 
Poor as was the crop in Kent — 2‘35 cwt. below the average— it was much 
worse elsewhere, and may be described as a failure in the western group of 
counties, among which Worcester, with a production of just over 3 cwt. per 
acre, was distinctly the best. 
