THE JOURNAL 
OF THE 
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 
Vol. Vil. No. 3. DECEMBER, 1900. 


TEE GRAN EARP Si OF 1900. 
The preliminary statement showing the estimated produce 
of the three chief cereal crops in Great Britain, in the harvest 
of 1900, was issued on the 5th inst. by the Board of Agri- 
culture in the customary form. These statistics showed the 
yield per acre alike of wheat, barley, and oats to be more 
er jess below the average of the preceding ten years: 
The yield per acre of wheat was estimated at 284 bushels, 
or rather more than 14 bushels below the decennial aver- 
age. This figure is nearly 4} bushels below the estimated yield 
for 1899, and nearly 6} bushels below the remarkably heavy 
crop of 1898. Not since 1895 has so small a return been 
indicated, although the crop of 1897 only exceeded that of 
the present year by about half a bushel per acre. In Wales 
and Scotland, this year, the wheat crop appears to have been 
relatively better than in England, although the area under 
wheat in these districts is much too small to affect materially 
the general result. The yield of 25% bushels credited to 
Wales was not only above the normal average of the Princi- 
pality by more than 1} bushel, but slightly exceeded the 
crop of last year. In Scotland the yield per acre was half a 
bushel below the local average. The coincidence of a defi- 
cient yield per acre with a substantial reduction in the acreage 
resulted in a total production of wheat smaller than in any 
year previously recorded, with the exception of 1893 and 1895. 
A general review of the reports received from the estimators 
makes it appear that the great corn-growing district which 
‘comprises the Eastern and North-Eastern counties of England 
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