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As was the case also in 1899, the Northern Counties 
showed the highest yield per acre of barley, but the Eastern | 
Counties, which last year stood second, gave this year a 
return lower than that of the country generally. 
The estimated yield of cats in Great Britain approximated 
more nearly both to the decennial average and to the 
previous year’s crop than did that of either wheat or barley. 
The deficiency was, however, greater in England than 
in Scotland. 





Estimated Total Estimated Yield “Average 
Produce. per Acie. | of the 
OaTs. | Ten 
5 | Years 
1900. 1899. 1900. | 1899. || 1890-99. 
Bushels. "Bushels. Pyare Bushels.|, Bushels. 
England - - - | 73,604,178 | 73,905,288 || 39°56 41°48 40°80 
Wales - - -| 7,238,305 | 7,527,952 || 33°44 | 34°18 || 33°20 
Scotland - - - | 34,005,054 | 33,313,304 || 35°83 | 34°78 || 36°55 
Great Britain - ~~ - | 114,847,537 | 114,746,544 || 37°95 | 38°77 38°31 


The following table gives the yield per acre of wheat, 
barley, and oats respectively, as estimated for each of the 
groups of counties into which England is divided for the 
purposes of these returns. 

Estimated yield per acre in 1900. 

Divisions of England. x2 
Wheat. Barley. Oats. 


Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. 
I. (a) Beds., Hunts.,. Cambs., | 
Suffolk, Essex, Herts., + 27°46 30°80 42°41 
Middlesex, London. 
(b) Norfolk Lincoln, York \ : : 
BR f 29°97 30°92 43-24 
iia) kent; (Surrey, - Sussex, |\ 


Berks., Hants., jf BOUT ee fons 
(b) Notts., Leicester, Rutland, | 
Northants, Bucks., Oxon., - 28°23 29°16 BA535 
Warwick. J 
III. (a) Salop, Worcester, Glou- 
cester, Wilts., Monmouth, 28°13 30°16 36°86 
Hereford. 
(b) Somerset, Dorset, Devon, : ; . ; 
Cornwall. j 25:76 hae se SE 
IV. (2) Northumberland, Durham, : : ; 
York, N.R., York, ane 28°43 33°39 39°81 
(b) Cumberland, Westmore- | | 
lade eleancs,, Stafford, - 30°85 32°09 38.83 
Cheshire, Derby. | 


