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yielding below the average. This appears from the following 
table :— 
Area, Production, and Yield per Acre or the Principal Crops 
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Area. Production. Yield per Acre. 
1goo. 1890-99 Tgoo. 1890-99 1900 1890-99 
Acres. Acres. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. | Bushels. | 
Wheat 539021 ere 1,682,284 I,791,210 31°3 30°9 
Oats 1,105,050 1,205,182 50.289,663 | 52,111,130 45°5 43°2 
Barley 172,996 171,124 6,225,782 6,590,414 35°8 38°5 
Bere- 177 254 5,602 7 697 31°6 30°3 
Rye - : : - 11,407 12,932 273,551 304,173 24°O 23°5 
Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons 
Potatoes - ° 654,079 713,013 7,841,832 2,574)305 2°8 Bion 
Turnips - 297.859 304,934 || 4,426,427 4,468,155 14°9 14°6 | 
ee rel and 68,803 52,949 | 1,186,582 818,124 1732 15°4 
Stones. | Stones. | 
Flax : ° - 47,451 69,323 10. 181 12,418 34°3 28°7 
(Clover, Sainfoin | 
i and Grasses ry 607,380 633,871 1,366,236 1,343,749 Tons. Tons. 
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Permanent ze) 
5 [Stokes api Ro 1,558,335 | 15517,375 || 3:847,732 | 3,332,810 ae oa 
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The returns of beekeeping for 1899 show a very great in- 
crease over all preceding estimates; the total production of 
honey amounting to 745,692 lbs, as compared with 526,734 
Ibs. in 1898, and an average of only 306,731 lbs. for the ten 
years 1889-98. It may be noted that during this period the 
quantity of honey returned as having been produced in hives 
with movable combs has increased more rapidly than that 
produced in other hives. The number of stocks brought 
through the winter of 1899-1900 is given as just Over 31,000, 
equally divided between hives with movable combs and other 
hives. 4,873 lbs. of wax were manufactured in 1899, as against 
5,048 lbs, in 1898. 

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