434 THE BRITISH CROPS OF 1900. 
although estimated to be about a bushel above the ten years’ 
average, fell nevertheless two bushels per acre short of the 
yield returned in the preceding year. 

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| Estimated Total '| Estimated Vield i 
Produce. per Acre. | Average 
BEANS | | Yield 
oe z : - per Acre 
1900. | 1899. 1900. | 1899. | 1890-99- 
| | 
Bushels. | Bushels. || Bushels. Bushels.'| Bushels. 
| | 
England - - - | 6,928,000 | 7,005,000 | 27°88 29°90 26°87 
| 
Wales - - 33,000 | 26,000 || 25:34 1 27.26 2552 
Scotland - - - | 427,000 | 440,000 | 32°89 33°66 |) ‘Sere, 
| | 
Great Britain = \= 7,886,000 4) 7.461060 | 28°1I 30°09 |) “2ynme 
| ! 

The yield of peas was slightly under average in Great 
Britain as a whole, and still more markedly below the yield 
of 1899. The decline was, however, not everywhere obvious, — 
there being, in fact, many more English counties with an over- 
average than with an under-average crop, whilethe small 
areas grown in Wales and Scotland gave a better crop in the 
past season thanin 1899. 

re Eee 
Estimated Yield | 
per Acre. 
Estimated Total 
ya bs aeher 
Produce. Average 
| | yield 
7 | per Acre. 
| 1890-99. 

1900. 1899. 
England 
4 ro) 
f Wales - 
| Scotland 
Great Britain 
RBushels. 
3,995,000 
34,000" 
32,000 
1$99. 
|| 1900. | 
| | 
| | j 

Bushels. 
4,359,000 

4,061,000 

4,421,000 

Bushels. 
25 eo 
Busheis.| Bushels. 
27" 26°20 
21°65 19°60 
24°77 


26°14 
The potato crop in 1900 appears to have been the smallest 
recorded since these returns were first collected in 1884, 
‘The yield per acre was estimated at a ton below the average, 
and at three-quarters of a ton less than the indifferent crop 
